This paper embodies my keynote address to the seminar on 'Pañchāla and Other Local Coins and Seals: Revisiting and Updating the Numismatic Source of History', organized by the Pañchāla Museum of the MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, a few years back. In this paper, after making a brief survey of Pañchāla coinage, I have dwelt on certain aspects of Pañchāla numismatics. At the end of the paper, I have dealt with a Buddhist seal from Sankissa, mainly to show how seals, too, may be used as a source of history. The proceedings of the Seminar were never published. I have, therefore, decided to publish that Keynote Address in the form of WebGuruCool Indological Studies 7. I acknowledge, with a profound sense of gratitude, the inspiration I always receive from my Guru, Professor K K Thaplyal, and the warm support I always receive from my family -Wife Dr Nidhi Srivastava, daughters Pratichi and Purvi, son-in-law Kumar Aishvarya, and my extended family of students. 12 June 2024. Prashant Srivastava.

Illustrations: Numerous B/w & Colour Illustration and 22 Graphs Description: A companion volume to the History of Pancala - A Study, the work, for the first time, presents a systematic and a multi-dimensional study of nearly 3000 coins. In addition to a detailed Introduction, the Corpus deals not only with the Paiic5la coins (Section 1) but also incorporates hitherto untapped source, viz. all coins found in the excavations of Ahicchatra conducted in the 1940s as well as the 1960s (Section 11). The third section gives details of frequency tables of the coins of various Pancala kings. Relying on both unpublished and published material available in India and abroad, it is the first comprehensive corpus of coins of one of the most important janapadas of northern India in the post Mauryan times and covers the numismatic history of the region up to the age of the Guptas. Following the lines of scientific numismatics, the Corpus has, in order to present an integrated numismatic study, incorporated various tools of numismatic researches - relevance of the technique of hoard examination, significance of die-studies and die-sequences palaeographic and linguistic Peculiarities, typological investigations, stratigraphic position of uninscribed and inscribed coins, the relations of Pancala kings with other contemporary powers and above all, the metrology of the Pancala coins. In the process, the volume provides material for further numismatic researches as well.

This is the first comprehensive study of the joint commemorative and victory coins of ancient India Which form a more important source of history than the normal issues. The Introduction discusses the nature and scope of the wok. The book is divided into three sections dealing with the Joint Issues, Commemorative Meda-Iiions, and Victory Medals.A detailed bibliography, an exhaustive index, and sixteen Plates of Photographic illustrations add to the merit of the work.

This Volume Brings Together Twelve Of Kosambi`S Major Essays On The Statistical And Analysical Study Of Coins From Ancient India.