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Most of the papers presented at the 15th Annual Conference of South Indian Numismatic Society, held at Kaiwara during 8-9 January 2005.
This volume, the 21st in the series entitled Studies in South Indian Coins contains twenty five papers on coins of various dynasties of South India, besides a section entitled news and views and an useful index to previous volumes, I to XX. The first paper deals with ancient coin names from Dharma-sastras and inscriptions and indicates that the change of dynasties resulted in the change in currency system. The next one describes two Roman coins from the ...
The 28 papers included in this Volume, twentieth in the series with the title Studies in South Indian Coins, cover a wide time span. The coins described are from the excavations, hoards, store rooms in the museums and individual collections.The coins are ascribed to: punch-marked variety, un-inscribed copper issues, Sadas, Satavahana, Roman, Kshatrapa, Ikshvaku, Kura Chutu, Vishnukundin, early Chera, Nolamba, medical Chola, Yadavas kalyana Kalachuris, later ...
The seventeen papers included in the present volume represent some of the important and absorbing topics related to the Vijayanagara Empire, which dominated the history of Peninsular India for more than 300 years from 1336. In this anthology, scholars from abroad and India have written on various facets of Vijayanagara, in different parts of the empire. The varied topics dealt by these scholars are: land use and settlement in the Vijayanagara Metropolitan region; ...
This volume, the seventeenth in the series, contains several papers on different aspects of South Indian Numismatics. Apart from papers on seals of Tamil Nadu and a seal from Sri Lanka in Matura Museum, there are papers on coins of pre-medieval period, such as the Andhra Janapada coins from Singavaram; Satavahana coins with interchanged symbols and symbols on an early Chera coin. Careful analysis of the contents of the hoards is always useful for numismatists. ...
This Volume, nineteenth in the series, has 29 papers by well known numismatists from South India, besides the section entitled 'news and views'. These papers may be broadly classified into two categories: 1] Unknown coins, seals and rings; 2] re-examination or re-interpretation of known coins and their significance and metallurgical properties of some coins. To the first category, belongs: coins assignable to the Sangam Age Cheras from Banavasi; a gold ...