365bet娱乐

There is a difference of opinion amongst scholars regarding the coins said to have been issued by Jayapida. According to some, two types of coins can be attributed to him whereas others are inclined to hold only one type as issued by Jayapida. Of these, the Vinayaditya type is unanimously accepted by all as this aditya title is supported by the Chronicle itself. The other, known as Sri-ja-Pratapa type, has been a matter of controversy. 2 3 Sri-ja-Pratapa type of coins were for the first found in the Banda hoard and were subsequently also noticed in the Rajghat hoard (Varanasi). In his note on the Banda hoard, Prayag Dayal attributed these coins to Jajja, the usurper brother-in-law of Jayapida, who ruled the Valley for three years. His arguments, in brief, were that usurpers are known to have issued coins in their own names and, not daring "to issue coins in his own name openly; so he issued coins in the name of the recent illustrious emperor of Kashmir, Muktapida Pratapaditya, and inserted his initial letter in the legend, changing it to sri-ja-Pratapa." This suggestions is supported by the instance of Diodotus, yg 1. Dayal, Pragay, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, XXIV, (Numis Sup.), 1928; pp. 6-9; Agrawala, V.S., Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, X, Pt. I (1949), p. 31; Altekdar, A.S., Ibid., X, p. 34 ff. 2. Rajatarangini by Kalhana, I, IV, 517. 3. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, XXIV, (Numis Sup.) p. 7; Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, X, pt. 1, p. 31-33. 4. Ibid., X, pt. 1, p. 35.

- 179 a governor of Seleukos, who added his own monogram to the coins of the latter. Though Dr. Agarwala did not commit himself on the Sri-ja-Pratapa type of coins while dealing with the only specimen of this type in the Rajghat hoard, he, apparently, treated them as issued by Lalitaditya Altekar, however, refuted the suggestions of R.B. Prayag Dayal and offered an altogether different interpretation which may be summed up as below. Controverting R.B. Prayag Dayal's ascription of this type of coins to Jajja, Dr. Altekar found it very strange that this type of coins was to be found both at Banda and Rajghat, whereas no specimen of it had been found in Kashmir where it naturally should have been. Thus, he argued that Jajja could not possibly have issued this type. Also, U.P. could not be said to have been under the rule of that usurper, for the Kashmir empire had already shruken during the period covered by the death of Lalitaditya and the accession of Jayapida (which factor was in all probability responsible for the latter's bid to emulate the exploits of Lalitaditya). According to him, these Sri-ja-Pratapa type of coins were issued by Jayaplda while he was assisting his grandfather, Lalitaditya, during the course of the latter's expedition against 1. Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, X, pt. 1, p. 31.

180 Kanauj. His suggestion gains force from the fact that both these types were found in the Banda hoard. To him, therefore, it was "clear that sri-ja-Pratapa coins were not issued during the reign of Jayapida Vinayaditya as the emperor of Kashmir." He also suggested the probability of Jayapida being appointed governor of Eastern U.P. by his victorious grandfather? To us, however, it appears that the balance of evidence is partially in favour of Dr. Altekar's view. In case we uphold R.B. Prayag Dayal's suggestion and ascribe the sri-ja-Pratapa coins to Jajja, we would, besides allowing for the doubts raised by Altekar, have to admit that the usurper Jajja also adopted the Aditya title of Pratapaditya, which is not supported by the Chronicle. Again, we cannot satisfactorily explain away the presence of this type of coins in the Banda and Rajghat hoards; the former may represent. 'part of the treasures Lalitaditya carried for the 1. Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, x, pt. 1, p. 36. 2. Ibid., p. 37. We may point out here that the chronology of the kings of Kashmir from Lalitaditya to Jayapida, as suggested by Dr. Altekar in his paper, is quite unacceptable to us. He places the reign of Jayapida in-between C. 752-783 A.D., which would make him a near contemporary of Yasovarman, whose last date, according to Dr. Tripathi (and generally accepted by others), is C. 752 A.D. If we exclude the three years of Jajja's reign, Jayapida should have succeeded in 749 A.D. for the first time, which is least probable.

- 181 maintenance of his forces which progressed triumphantly eastwards to Gauda and other regions.' Also, Jajja, from all indications in the Chronicle, did not hold sway over U.P. But Dr. Altekar has suggested a chronology of Kashmir kings from Lalitaditya to Jayapida which is quite incompatible with that maintained by other scholars and also supported by us. As such, we might suggest the following e mendations to Dr. Altekar's theory. 2 The learned scholar has argued that Lalitaditya was greatly impressed by the chivalrous and adven-. turous spirit of Jayapida and, very possibly, made the latter his viceroy of his eastern dominations. But the consensus amongst scholars is that Jayapida came to the throne some time in the last quarter of the 8 th century A.D. (C. 779 A.D.) to which we also contribute. Accordingly, we maintain that Sri-jaPratapa coins were issued by Lalitaditya to commemorate some very signal event or an auspicious occasion and we offer the suggestion that Lalitaditya's G campaign in the gangetic valley coincided with the birth of Jayapida, his grandson, which event was commemorated by that Emperor by issuing these coins. 1. Tripathi, R.S., H.K., p. 204. 2. Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, X, pt. 1, p. 37 ff.

182 We may cite a somewhat parallel example from the annals of the Gahadavala dynasty; King Govindachandra of Kanauj conquered Dasarna (Eastern Malwa) on the very day of the birth of his grandson, Jayachandra - Now Jaya (victory), the first part of the name of Jayapida lends more colour and support to our suggestion as this may be taken to indicate the signal victory over his pwerful enemy - Yasovarman. As such, we maintain that Sri-ja-Pratapa type of coins were, as suggested by Altekar and treated by Agarwala, issued by Lalitbut aditya, very possibly, to commemorate the birth of his grandson Jayapida, which coincided with his victory in the plains of the Uttar Pradesh.