Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s5.5
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s5.5
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²¹ As regards the contribution of numismatics to the study of ancient Indian geography, reference may be made to the discovery of the coins of the Śibi republic, minted at Madhyamikā, at a place called Nagari near Chitodgadh in Rajasthan. This helped scholars in suggesting that Nagari is just the latter part of the old name Madhyamikā-nagarī as Purī is that of Puruṣottama-purī or Jagannātha-purī.