The Silver Coinage of the Gupta Empire and Associated States in Western India: Analysis, classification and illustrated catalogue (Paperback edition)

Dealing with the silver coinage and events around the time of the fall of the Western Kṣatrapa kingdom in the period 398-415 CE, and in the century that followed, this work comprehensively catalogues unprecedented integrated coin classifications for – and fresh historical conclusions about – the Gupta empire and associated states including the Traikūṭakas and Kalachuris. It also broadens the known history of the Western Kṣatrapas by identifying the coinage of two individuals who succeeded the kingdom’s last great ruler; and through detailed analysis introduces the previously unknown “Second Kṣatrapa Kingdom” ruled by a king named Madasena and his sons, and with coinages formerly misattributed to the Maitrakas of Valabhī and the Western Kṣatrapas.