Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.76

c10.76

The coins current in Ujjain have a special mark. On some of the rare coins the word Ujeniya is incised in Brāhmī characters of the 2nd century B.C. Generally on one side is found a man with a symbol of the sun and on the other is seen the sign of Ujjain. On some coins a bull within a fence or the Bodhi tree or the Sumeru hill or the figure of the Goddess of Fortune is seen on one side. Some coins of Ujjain are quadrangular while others are round.¹ Square copper Moghul coins were struck in this city up to the time of Shah Jahan.² The class of round coins found at Ujjain display a special symbol, the ‘cross and balls’ known as the Ujjain symbol.³ For further details vide B. C. Law, *Tribes in Ancient India*, Ch. IX; B. C. Law, *Geographical Essays*, pp. 33, 170; B. C. Law, *Ujjayinī in Ancient India*, (Gwalior Archaeological Department); B. C. Law, *Indological Studies*, I, 54.