The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c15.6
The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c15.6
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¹ Fleet, Nos. 1, 2, V. A. Smith, op. cit., 297–306. The Aśvamedha was marked by a special issue of gold coins which bear on the reverse the legend Aśvamedha Parâkrama, ‘the paramount prince of the horse-sacrifice’ and the figure of the queen Dattâdevî, while the obverse has an altar and the figure of the sacrificial horse. See Allan, Catalogue of the Coins of the Gupta Dynasties, etc. See also Rapson, J.R.A.S., 1901, p. 102, for a seal bearing the figure of a horse and the legend Parâkrama.