[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951) › c19.9 # History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c19.9 History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c19.9 - **Language:** English ### [c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.9) The latter statement is strikingly confirmed by the coins themselves. For at least two centuries Harṣa’s predecessors had issued only a bronze coinage, bearing on the obverse a seated goddess, and on the reverse a standing king.⁶ Harṣa’s bronze coins, probably issued early in the reign, bear the same devices, but he also issued a plentiful gold and silver coinage, which generally bears new types. The first of these, in gold only, has the device of a horseman, which was probably borrowed from the Śāhi dynasty of Gandhāra; while the second type, both in gold and silver, bears on the obverse a standing elephant and on the reverse the inscription only.¹ The latter type, according to Rapson, was borrowed from the coinage of Koṅgudeśa.² - [Previous: c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.8) - [Next: c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.10) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Rājataraṅgiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.kashmir.rajatarangini) — Kalhaṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.basham-1951.c19.9) · Pramāṇa