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The importance of the study of coins for the reconstruction of the lost history of ancient India is well known to the Indologists and Numismatists . A large number of kings along with the names of their capitals , dynasties and royal epithets are identified only from their coins who may or may not be mentioned in any Sanskrit or Pali or Prakrit text or in any Epigraphic inscriptions . A Coin , being a metal , survives for one or two millennia with distinct ...
The discovery of the Pre-Brahmi Indus Script or proto-Indic Script i.e. Bhoota Lipi as mentioned in the Tantric literatures poses a serious challenge to the scriptologists all over the world for its decipherment for more than one hundred years since its appearance on punch-marked coins. The Indus Script with its variants existed on clay tablets, ivory plaques, steatite and metallic seals, potsherds, copper plates, punch-marked metallic coins, etc, all over the ...
After my successful decipherment of the Indus Script in my book, "India and Sanskrit as deciphered in the Indus Script " many scholars requested me to re-decipher the inscribed seals and potteries unearthed from Chandraketugarh who could not accept the decipherment of Dr. B. N. Mukhrjee, the former Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta. Dr. B.N. Mukhrjee attempted to decipher more than 50 inscriptions of ...