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Examine the significance of the deities depicted on the coins of the Kushanas.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Post-Mauryan Period

No other ancient Indian dynasty put so crowded and so mixed a pantheon on its currency as the Kushanas. Greek sun-gods, Iranian fire-deities, Shiva with his bull, and Buddha himself appear on coins struck by the same mint within a few decades of each other. Read carefully, this eclecticism is less a curiosity of taste…

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  • The Pantheon Assembled on the Coins
  • Two Readings: Personal Eclecticism versus Deliberate Legitimation
  • Anomalies That Complicate the Simple Story
  • Numismatics as Evidence for Chronology and Polity
  • Cultural Fusion and the "Bridge" Role of the Empire

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