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  2. Coinage of India - Wikipedia

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    The coins of various Rajput princess's ruling in Hindustan and Central India were usually of gold, copper or billon, very rarely silver. These coins had the familiar goddess of wealth, Lakshmi on the obverse. In these coins, the Goddess was shown with four arms than the usual two arms of the Gupta coins; the reverse carried the Nagari legend.

  3. Punch-marked coins - Wikipedia

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    The coins of this period were punch-marked coins called Aahat. Several of these coins had a single symbol, for example, Saurashtra had a humped bull, and Dakshin Panchala had a Swastika, others, like Magadha, had several symbols. These coins were made of silver of a standard weight but with an irregular shape. This was gained by cutting up ...

  4. Post-Mauryan coinage - Wikipedia

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    In addition to their own Attic coins, Greek kings thus started to issue bilingual Greek-Prakrit coins in the Indian standard, often taking over numerous symbols of the Post-Mauryan Gandhara coins, such as the arched-hill symbol and the tree-in-railing or Goddess Lakshmi at the beginning, and depictions of the bull and elephant later.

  5. Surasena - Wikipedia

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    The Sura-sena Janapada was occupied by Vrishnis and Andhakas, branches of the Yadu tribe. [6] ... Saurasena coin, 400–300 BCE. References Sources. Raychaudhuri, H.C ...

  6. History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Another pre-Mauryan archaeological evidence of Indian dressing comes from Saurashtra janapada coins which are one of the earliest representations of Indian pre-Mauryan arts. The coins are dated between 450 and 300 BCE and have been repeatedly over struck just like punch-marked coins. [9]

  7. Yelp - Wikipedia

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    It has since become one of the leading sources of user-generated reviews and ratings for businesses. Yelp grew in usage and raised several rounds of funding in the following years. By 2010, it had $30 million in revenue, and the website had published about 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and ...

  8. Janapada - Wikipedia

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    Janapada The Janapada assembly represented the rest of the Janapada, possibly the villages, which were administered by a gramini, [17] or grāmaṇī. [18] Some historians have also theorized that there was a common assembly called the "Paura-Janapada", but others such as Ram Sharan Sharma disagree with this theory. The existence of Paura and ...

  9. Saurashtra (region) - Wikipedia

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    Saurashtra peninsula is bound on the south and south-west by the Arabian Sea, on the north-west by the Gulf of Kutch and on the east by the Gulf of Khambhat.From the apex of these two gulfs, the Little Rann of Kutch and Khambhat, waste tracts half salt morass half sandy desert, stretch inland towards each other and complete the isolation of Kathiawar, except one narrow neck which connects it ...