Ancient Indian Coinage-Rekha Jain-DKPD-9788124600528
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Money is
unmistakably a landmark invention — considering its indispensable role in
economics and, more specially, in the commercial sphere of man’s existence
anywhere in the world. However, we have yet to have final answers to some of
the fundamental questions: When, where, and how was money — shaped as ‘coins’
or as ‘pieces of stamped metal’ — first introduced to human civilization? Its
genesis in India is traced back to the sixth century bc: during the second
urban revolution, when coins came to be manufactured here independently,
indigenously. Analysing in depth an astonishing mass of numismatic and
kindred data, published in different catalogues, archaeological reports,
journals and elsewhere, this book investigates the evolution of ancient
India’s money economy: in terms of its ‘coinage’, through six successive
periods: janapada, Maurya, post-Maurya, Gupta, post-Gupta, and pre-medieval —
which, in their togetherness, span nearly two millennia. Covering the entire
subcontinental sprawl, Dr. Jain considers the whole variety of coins: local,
universal standard, and even foreign, with meticulous descriptions of coin
types, symbols, legends, fabric and metrology. In her thematic effort to
reconstruct the history of ancient Indian coinage (and, thus, money economy),
from its first beginnings in high antiquity to about the twelth century ad,
the author has drawn on wide-ranging primary and secondary sources. And has
also tried to establish linkages between different ancient coins and their
references/descriptions in Vedic/Buddhist/Jaina texts, Panini’s Ashtadhyayi’,
Kautilya’s Arthashastra, epical literature, Dharmashastras, foreigners’
travelogues, old-world mathematical treatises, and numerous contemporary
inscriptions, among others writings. |
Book |
ISBN |
9788124600528
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PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
Binding |
PAPERBACK |
Edition |
2017
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Language |
ENGLISH |
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