Catalogues of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty

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E.J. Rapson’s Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty, etc., is a valuable reference book for scholars interested in the study of early dynasties of western and eastern India. The work is of great importance since for the reconstruction of a full and accurate account of the history of these dynasties, coins have provided the main source of information. The present Catalogue includes the coins of the Andhra dynasty and its feudatories, the Western Ksatrapas including the families of Ksaharata, Castana and Rudrasimha II, the Traikutaka and the ‘Bodhi’ dynasty. In a scholarly Introduction, Rapson has eminently succeeded in presenting a cogent history of these dynasties by correlating also the evidence from inscriptions, Puranic sources and archaeological finds. In this extremely useful Introduction of over two hundred pages he has given the outline of the history of the Andhra dynasty from inscriptions, coins and other sources, notes on the inscriptions of the Andhra, Iksvaku, Western Ksatrapa and Abhira dynasties, Puranic dynastic lists, coins of the Andhra dynasty, history genealogy and coins of the Western Ksatrapas, the history and coinage of the Traikutaka dynasty, the coins of the ‘Bodhi’ dynasty, the types and symbols, denominations, weights and metals and coin-legends besides palaeographical notes on the inscriptions. He has thus been able to clear many obscure points relating to the reconstruction of the history of these dynasties. In the catalogue proper, all the details about the coins of these dynasties have been recorded with scholarly notes on debatable matters. At the end of the volume are given indexes of kings and rulers, types, symbols and adjuncts, dates on coins of Western Ksatrapas besides a historical, geographical and miscellaneous index. The volume also contains a map and twenty-one plates illustrating the coins and coin-legends.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward James Rapson

Professor Edward James Rapson (1861-1937) was born at Leicester and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class of the Classical Tropos in 1883. He read Indian languages from Edward Cowell, the first Professor of Sanskrit in Cambridge and was awarded the Brotheron Prize for Sanskrit in 1884 and was placed in the First Class of the Indian languages Tropos in 1885. In 1887 he became a Fellow of St. Johnâ€™s College. In the same year he briefly served as an Assistant Librarian to the Indian Institute at Oxford and joined the British Museum as an Assistant in the Department of Coins. In 1906 he was elected to the Chair of Sanskrit at Cambridge and a fellowship at St. John's College. As a Professor of Sanskrit, for almost thirty years, Professor Rapson imparted training to a number of students who, in course of time, have contributed enormously to Indian studies. He was particularly thorough in Kharosthi as is evident from the three volumes of Kharosthi Inscriptions discovered by Sir M.A. Stein in Chinese Turkestan of which the first two volumes (1920 and 1927) he edited in collaboration with A.M. Boyes and E. Senart and the third volume (1929) jointly with P.S. Noble. Besides, he also published Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty etc., Ancient Indian and edited Vol. 1 of the Cambridge History of India 91922) in which he also contributed three chapters. He contributed a number of papers on numismatics in various journals and his contribution in this field is of permanent importance. In recognition of his outstanding work the school of Oriental Studies offered him the Volume of Indian Studies with contributions by scholars from all over the world.