Indian Numismatics, History, Art and Culture: Essays in Honour of Dr. P.L. Gupta

Contents: Preface. Research papers: Numismatics: 1. Punch-marked coinage of Kosala--towards a classification/T.R. Hardaker, Oxford, Britain. 2. Silver punch-marked coins from Magadha--an unknown type/Savita Sharma, Banaras Hindu University, India. 3. Coins in the reconstruction of the political history of ancient Bihar/B.P. Sinha, Patna, India. 4. Local coinage of Vaisali/Amal Kumar Jha, Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies, India. 5. Coins from Eran excavations : a chronological analysis/K.D. Bajpai, Sagar, India. 6. Coins from Mir Zakah in private collections/Osmund Bopearachchi, Paris, France. 7. Three Denarii of Tiberius from Arikamedu/Peter Berghaus, Dinkagestrasse, Germany. 8. Greek monograms/A.H. Dani, Qaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan. 9. A unique Greek coin from Afghanistan/Raymond J. Hebert, Smithsonian Institute, USA. 10. The geographical distribution of monograms on the coinage of Menander and Antimachus Nikephours/D.W. MacDowall, Admont, Britain. 11. Numismatic evidence for the date of the 'Periplus'/Joe Cribb, British Museum, Britain. 12. The Kushana triad--third century conflict/Craig Alden Burns, California, USA. 13. Kushana coins in Bengal--an appraisal/B.N. Mukherjee, Calcutta, India. 14. Silver coin of Mahakshatrapa Prithivisena : a rejoinder/Dilip Rajgor, Bombay, India. 15. New discoveries in the Satavahana coinage/Shobhana Gokhale, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, India. 16. Kollippurai : an inscribed Tamil coin of first century A.D./R. Nagaswamy, Government of Tamil Nadu, India. 17. Forgery of coins in the Yadava period/Chandra Shekhar Gupta. 18. Vijayanagara coinage as seen by foreign travellers/A.V. Narasimha Murthy, Mysore University, India. 19. Ninth century Byzantine coins in the tenth century Hungarian finds/Istvan Gedai, Magyar Nemzei Museum, Hungary. 20. More venetian ducats in India/N.J. Mayhew, Ashmolean Museum, Britain. 21. The so-called "Arakan" mint rupees of the Bengal Sultans/M. Robinson, Cheshire; and S. Goron, Surrey, Britain. 22. Four Indian coin-dies in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford/Helen Mitchell Brown, Ashmolean Museum, Britain. 23. The closure of the Delhi Mint, A.D. 1818/Sanjay Garg, National Archives of India, India. 24. The coinage of Sitamau state/K.W. Wiggins, East Sussex, Britain. 25. Shroff marks on Arakanese Tankahs/M. Robinson, Cheshire, Britain. 26. Ancient coinage from Tahiland and Burma--its geographical distribution and typological development/Robert S. Wicks, Miami University, USA. Indian history, art and culture: 27. A new fragment of the 'Bodharajakumarasutra' from Eastern Turkestan/G.M. Bongard Levin, Moscow, U.S.S.R. 28. Queen Uddaka's illuminated manuscript/Pratapaditya Pal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA. 29. Anna's northern expedition/Devendra Handa, Punjab University, India. 30. Brahmi and its offshoots in Asia/T.P. Verma, Banaras Hindu University, India. 31. Paramam Padah/T.K. Biswas, Banaras Hindu University, India. 32. Krishnalila scenes at the Simhanatha Temple, Orissa/M.N.P. Tiwari, Banaras Hindu University, India. 33. Eros from Junnar/M.K. Dhavalikar, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, India. 34. A bronze plaque of atlas of the Gandhara School from Taxila/Karl Khandalavala, Pune, India. 35. 'Saura-Pitha' or the solar altar/B.V. Shetti, Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, India. 36. Some aspects of trade and commerce in Konkana and Southern Maharashtra under the Silaharas/Ajay Mitra Shastri, Nagpur, India. 37. Benaras and the company school of painting/T.N. Mishra, Banaras Hindu University, India.