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The Da
Chap
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n of Indian Co
Excerpts from
ter 2 of the monograph
e Francis Therattil
nage
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Representation of Indian
Persepol
Gold too is produ
washed down by the riv
described [paragraph 106,
Re
pers
side
scu
[Na
elegation: relief on the wall near the eastern stairw
s. Photo: University of Chicago [cropped-out image].
ced there in vast abundance, some dug from
ers, some carried off in the mode which I
Book III - Thalia].
presentation of an Indian [Hnduya] among
ns depicted as obediently supporting on the
of the base of the statue of Darius the Great
lptured in Egypt as per his order [DSab]
close-up of the scripture in Hieroglyph.
ional Archeological Museum, Tehran, Iran]
Photo: Livius Picture Archive Susa.htm
h
nd
u
ya
foreign land
y at Apadana,
the earth, some
have but now
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By about 520 BC,
Darius] the
[kshyathaiya - king] of
under his dominion.
Herodotus records
discoverer. Wishing to kn
produces crocodiles] empt
truthfulness he could rely,They started from the city
the stream in an easterly
voyage of thirty months,
spoke above, sent the Pho
Darius conquered the Ind
except the eastern portio
[paragraph 44, Book IV -
He started issuing
BC], evident from the sma
as date, the twenty-second
impressions of two Darics
and Archaic Greek Coinag
[Drayavaush- He Who Holds F
[Hakshmanaishaiya - Achaemenid]
[Prs - Persia], brought [
the event: Of the greater part of Asia
ow where the Indus [which is the only rive
ied itself into the sea, he sent a number of
and among them Scylax of Caryanda, to sailof Caspatyrus, in the region called Pactyica,
direction to the sea. Here they turned westw
eached the place from which the Egyptian k
nicians to sail round Libya. After this voyage
ians, and made use of the sea in those parts.
, has been found to be similarly circumstanc
elpomene].
old coins by the last decade of the sixth centu
ll clay tablet, from the Persepolis fortification
regnal year of Darius, on the reverse of whic
[pages 8 -12, Evidence from Persepolis for D, M. C. Root, NC, 1988].
Dar
[in his
behin
Relief
north
Apada
Natio
Archa
Museu
irm the Good -
idu Sindhu]
arius was the
r save one that
en, on whose
down the river.nd sailed down
ard, and after a
ing, of whom I
was completed,
. Thus all Asia,
ed with Libya
y BC [509 - 500
rchive, bearing
there are clear
ating of Persian
ius the Great
throne]
him Xerxes I
from the
rn stairs of the
na; now at
al
eological
m, Tehran, Iran.
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Satraps had no right to mint gold coins of their own and ever since the
introduction of Daric, it was the only gold coin in tender across the entire Persian
Empire. So there is hardly any question of a gold coin of India during that period. An
instance recorded in Histories seems to be worth mentioning in this context:
Darius had refined gold to the last perfection of purity in order to have coins
struck of it: Aryandes, in his Egyptian government, did the very same with silver, so that
to this day there is no such pure silver anywhere as the Aryandic. Darius, when this
came to his ears, brought another charge, a charge of rebellion, against Aryandes, and puthim to death [paragraph 166, Book IV - Melpomene].
[DAREIOS in Greek]
Scene from the Darius Vase, produced
between 340 and 320 BC which was
discovered in 1851 near Canosa di
Puglia and now on display at the Museo
Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples(H3253).
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