Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.129
Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.129
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§ 260. The Paura being so pronouncededly mercantile, their getting coins minted at the royal mint we can take as an economic measure. The 'Negama coins' which are interpreted as coins struck by guilds, are, I think, to be interpreted as coins struck at the capital by the state for the association of the City Merchants or the Paura.² And the coins bearing the name of chief towns, e. g, Ujeniya,³ can be thus explained as being Paura coins.⁴