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Indrani is the consort (wife) of Lord Indra and also the queen of Gods. She was the daughter demon Puloman who killed by Indra. Starting with the history of the worship of matrikas or goddesses in India from the time of ancient Indus Civilization, the book traces the history of Indrani from the Vedic period through the ages of Epics and Puranas, her absorption in the folds of Jainism and Buddhism, her pinnacle with the union of Saptamatrikas book is a landmark ...
Contents: 1. The bull on Indian coins/Devendra Handa. 2. The earliest Saivite images on ancient Indian coins/Wilfried Pieper. 3. Aspects of Indo-Roman trade/Michael Mitchiner. 4. Roman Copper Folles of Diocletian from South India/David W. Mac Dowall. 5. A contemporary counterfeit coin of Flavius Valens (364-378 AD), the Byzantine/Jee Francis Therattil. 6. Sealings of Yuvaraja Vasisthiputra chada/Dr. Amarendra Nath. 7. A short presentation on one west-Indian and ...
20 articles, relating with Ancient, Medieval and Modern Indian coins by eminent scholars.
Kubera, Lord of Yakshas, is a multi - hued god with numerous legends associated with him. Starting with the birth of Kubera, this fascinating study traces the various legends associated with Kubera abd their iconographic delineation, the integration and parallel of Kubera in Buddhism and Jainism, his representation in the other countries of Asia and in the different part of India and so on.
This Book, from the pen of the author of highly acclaimed book From ...
Not too long ago, the rajas, maharajas, and nawabs held sway over almost half of India. There were more than five hundred and fifty princely states. Some had vast territories under them, others were smaller; some were very powerful, others were not so powerful. Many of these princely states or native states, as they are also called, issued their own coinages. These, though relatively recent, are amongst the least researched and published coins in Indian ...
This monumental work by Dr. Maheshwari is a welcome addition to the scholarship of the early medieval period. The author has drawn upon a vast body of first-hand observation of coin hoards, to offer us a fresh and compelling account of this most fascinating period of India’s monetary history. Having commissioned an extensive and ground-breaking series of metallographic analyses of the coins, the author is able to shed much light for the first ...
The Buddhist goddess Hariti, comparable to the brahmanical Sitala, has a dramatic life story with many ups and downs. Born to a Yakhsa king, married into another important yaksha family, she turns into a child-eating ogress. Ultimately she is converted by Sakyamuni Buddha himself and attains arhatship. Riding on the Buddhist wave, she becomes a cult figure and travels to Central Asia, Nepal, Tibet, China, Java, and Japan.
This book, researched by Madhurika ...
For several centuries Ramatankas were the most popular form of religious token used by the Hindus in India. During their heyday, which was the inneteenth century, Ramatankas were used from the Ganges valley in the north to Trivandrum in the south, and from Calcutta in the east to Bombay in the west. In earlier times the use of Ramatankas had been more restricted, mainly because the use of pictorial Hindu religious tokens was not acceptable in the Moslem kingdoms ...
This volume contains the wide range of interesting communications submitted to the seminar, sometimes revised in the light of the lively discussions that ensued. In his presidential address Prof. B.N. Mukherjee draws attention to some of the literary and epigraphic data available about foreign coins imported into India. In earlier times they arrived with traders, travellers or pilgrims. They also served as bullion. At times they influenced manufacturing ...
1. A hoard of early local punch marked coins of Magadha Janapada/Sharad Sharma and Shinji Hirano. 2. Some Magadha series 1 overstrikes from Sasaram/Pankaj Tandon. 3. Yaudheya Chronology and Coinage: an analysis/Richard D. Mann. 4. Some rare Shadanana-Shashthi/Deer type Yaudheya Coins/Devendra Handa. 5. A new silver coin of Vasisthiputra Vijaya Satakarni/L.B. Varma. 6. Coins of the Kadambas of Banavasi/M. Girijapathi and L. Subrahmanya. 7. Padmatanka of Queen ...