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Monnaies Gréco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques, by Osmund Bopearachchi, 1991.

Osmund Bopearachchi (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan historian and numismatist who has specialized notably standardized the coinage of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms. He is currently Emeritus Director of the CNRS at the École normale supérieure and Adjunct Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, University of California, Berkeley.

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Osmund Bopearachchi

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Osmund Bopearachchi (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan historian and numismatist who has specialized notably standardized the coinage of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian...

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Demetrius II of India

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and sub-king of Demetrius I, but this view has now been abandoned. Osmund Bopearachchi has suggested that he ruled in Bactria and Arachosia c. 175–170 BC...

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Apollodotus I

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between 180 BC and 160 BC or between 174 and 165 BC (first dating Osmund Bopearachchi and R. C. Senior, second dating Boperachchi) who ruled the western...

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Agathocles of Bactria

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scholars to conclude that Agathocles favored socio-religious tolerance. Osmund Bopearachchi hold him to have inaugurated the first Indo-Greek era; others have...

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Thraso

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single preserved coin indicates a small and insignificant reign. Osmund Bopearachchi suggests a preliminary dating of 95–80 BC, but Senior himself concludes...

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Archebius

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"Archelius") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the area of Taxila. Osmund Bopearachchi dates him to c. 90–80 BCE, and R. C. Senior to about the same period...

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History of Hinduism

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University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-76999-2 Singh 2008, pp. 436–438. Osmund Bopearachchi, "Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and Sculptural...

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Demetrius I of Bactria

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coins, were contemporary with those of the Indo-Greeks. According to Osmund Bopearachchi these coins, and particularly those depicting the goddess Lakshmi...

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Krishna

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Century. Pearson Education India. pp. 436–438. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0. Osmund Bopearachchi, Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and Sculptural...

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Menander I

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26: 1–44. ISSN 2708-4590. Bopearachchi (1998) and (1991), respectively. The first date is estimated by Osmund Bopearachchi and R. C. Senior, the other...

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Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter

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Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly in western Punjab or Gandhara. Osmund Bopearachchi places Polyxenus c. 100 BCE and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE. Polyxenus...

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Antimachus II

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Antimachus I, who is known from a unique preserved tax receipt. Osmund Bopearachchi dated Antimachus II to 160–155 BCE on numismatical grounds, but changed...

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Art of Mathura

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now lost, may have served as models to the engravers. According to Osmund Bopearachchi, the parasol-like headdress of these deities is actually a misrepresentation...

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Balarama

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century BCE–8th century CE. Routledge. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-317-19374-6. Bopearachchi, Osmund. Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and Sculptural...

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Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley

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Bhir Mound hoards (deposited c.300 BC)." Article by Joe Cribb and Osmund Bopearachchi in Errington, Elizabeth; Trust, Ancient India and Iran; Museum, Fitzwilliam...

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Numismatist

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(1919–2012) Jacob de Bie Mark Blackburn (1953–2011) Roger Bland Osmund Bopearachchi Bartolomeo Borghesi Howard Franklin Bowker Robert Bracey Pierre-Napoléon...

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Guwahati

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Presence: A Study of Hidden Lingas in the Mid-Brahmaputra Valley". Osmund Bopearachchi and Suchandra Ghosh (Eds), Early Indian History and Beyond: Essays...

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Heliodorus pillar

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Bhagavata Purana. Penguin UK. 2003-12-04. ISBN 978-0-14-191337-7. Osmund Bopearachchi, 2016, Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and...

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Eran

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incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Osmund Bopearachchi; Wilfried Pieper (1998). Ancient Indian coins. Brepols. pp. 23–24...

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Ashoka

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been criticized by other scholars, such as Johannes Bronkhorst and Osmund Bopearachchi. Names and titles of Ashoka The name "A-shoka" literally means "without...

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Edicts of Ashoka

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been criticized by other scholars, such as Johannes Bronkhorst and Osmund Bopearachchi. List of Edicts of Ashoka Pillars of Ashoka Ashokan Edicts in Delhi...

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Vajrapani

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Antiquity" (Princeton University Press, 1994) ISBN 0-691-03680-2 Osmund Bopearachchi, Christine Sachs, "De l'Indus à l'Oxus, Archéologie de l'Asie Centrale"...

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Vaishnavism

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Century. Pearson Education India. pp. 436–438. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0. Osmund Bopearachchi, Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and Sculptural...

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Coin

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Encyclopaedia Iranica, December 15, 1994, last updated November 17, 2011 Bopearachchi, Osmund; Cribb, Joe (1992), "Coins illustrating the History of the Crossroads...

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Dionysius Soter

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was an Indo-Greek king in the area of eastern Punjab. According to Osmund Bopearachchi, he reigned c. 65–55 BCE and inherited the eastern parts of the kingdom...

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