Jain Inscriptions of Rajasthan

SR No.: 001596
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ramvallabh Somani
Publisher: Rajasthan Prakrit Bharti Sansthan Jaipur
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 350
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Art, & History
File Size: 17 MB

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Gujarat who ascended the throne in V.E. 1302. The LekhPaddhati104 tends to undermine this supposition, because it mentions Visalpriya and Jirna Visalpriya drammas in the drafts dated V. E. 1288 This is a collection of model drafts of many documents, which bear105 the date V. E. 1288. It mentions "Shri Shri Maliya-Kharatankashalahata Trih Parikshita Hatta-Vyavaharamana Jirna Vishvamalla Priya Dramma" etc. This proves that in V. E. 1288 Jirna Visalpriya Drammas were restamped thrice in the mint of Bhinmal106. However the evidence of Lekh-Paddhati can not be made a basis for dating the coins. This is, in fact, a compilation of model drafts, which were strung togetha much later. The compiler who also added new drafts of his own perhaps dated them to V. E. 1288, the date of other drafts, in order to impart uniformity to his work. Several inscriptions107 like the Ratanpur inscriptions of V. E. 1343, 1348, the Sanchore inscription of V. E. 1345 the Arasana inscription of V. E. 1344 etc. also refer to this coin.
Except a few coins minted by Siddhraj108 Jaisingh, no coin issued by the Chalukya rulers of Gujrat has been discovered so far.
Ajaypriya-Dramma was issued by Ajay deva Chauhan of Ajmer. We have a definite reference to this109 fact in the Prithviraj Vijay, which states that Ajaydeva filled the earth with silver rupakam. His queen Somaldevi also issued new coins regularly. Hoards of more than 20,000 copper coins were unearthed from the villages Baranala and Parasoli. These bear the figure of a horseman with the words Ajaydeva and Somaldevi
104. The Lekh-Paddhati (G.O.S.) pp. 20, 33, 34 and 37.
105. ibid.
106. R. C. Agrawal's paper published in Jain Siddhant Bhaskar 1954.
107. Nahar I No. 936/II No. 1706/Abu V No. 34.
108. A. K. Majumdar-The Chalukyas of Gujarat (1956) P. 274. 109. Prithviraj-Vijay V-87-88/Varada Vol. VIII No. 4 pp 1-10/I. A. Vol. XLI (1912) pp 209-10/Prithviraj Chauhan and His Times by the Author P. 120.