History of the Traikutakas: Based on Coins and Inscriptions

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The monograph, History of the Traikutakas deals with the history of the Traikutaka dynasty based on their coins and inscriptions. The Traikutakas are known to have reigned in western India in the third-fourth centuries after Christ. The present endeavour is an attempt to revisit the waxing problem of dating the dynasty on the political map of India. On the basis of some newly discovered numismatic evidences, it is held that the dates inscribed on the inscriptions and coins of the Traikutakas should be reckoned in the Saka era of AD 78 and not in the Kalachuri-Chedi era of AD 248-49. This ante-dates the whole dynasty by about one hundred seventy years. The book compiles entire numismatic and epigraphical data and uses them to rebuild the history of the Traikutakas of western India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajgor .

Dr. Rajgor received his Master's Degree in Indian History, Culture and Archaeology with a Post-graduate Diploma in Linguistics from the M.S. University of Baroda. He holds doctorate in Numismatics from the University of Bombay. He has edited the Khabarnama and the ICS newsletter from 1987-94. His published works include Standard Catalogue of Sultanate Coins of India (1991); and Studies in the Coinage of the Western Kshtrapas (with Amiteshwar Jha in 1994). Numismatic Heritage of Early Historic Gujarat; and Janapada Coins of Buddist India. He is currently completing linguistic analysis of Brahmi script. He has participated in various international and national seminars and conferences and has contributed forty-five research papers to different journals and books He has also been awarded the Lowick Memorial Grant of the Royal Numismatic Society, U.K. in 1991; and the Indological Fellowship of the Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1994.