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Pratihara / Siyadoni dramma accounting: research record

Evidence coverage: AD 912–AD 969. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Pratihara / Siyadoni dramma accounting

CUR-V36-SIYADONI-DRAMMA · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: AD 912–AD 969; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Sasanian and early Islamic eastern drahm–dirham reckoningregional currency continuity · qualified · 450–913
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Unit and issue records 3 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Invested capital in drammas · C2030
Recurring dramma obligation · C2031
Dramma-denominated rent · C2032

Latest research

Medieval dramma account identity

Siyadoni deeds specify investments, rent and recurring payments in named dramma forms. Admit a scoped Pratihara/Siyadoni account profile; preserve the adivaraha and vigrahapala distinctions without assuming every regional dramma identical.

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Invested capital in drammas

A deed dated Vikrama 969 records1,850 Adivaraha drammas invested with liquor distillers. The912–913 CE range dates the recorded transaction, not the later inscription’s production or currency origin.

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Recurring dramma obligation

A Vikrama 1005 deed assigns a monthly one-third-dramma payment. The948–949 CE range preserves the calendrical conversion uncertainty.

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Dramma-denominated rent

A Vikrama 1025 deed assigns a quarter Adivaraha dramma from rent, witnessing the account in 968–969 CE.

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Open bridge toward today’s rupees

Indo-Greek denominations spread into India, but De Romanis shows that drachm coins could circulate while accounts remained in karsapana. Neither that coin sequence nor a repeated dramma name establishes the missing medieval-to-Mughal account links.

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Qualified drachm ancestry

Cribb traces medieval Indian dramma denominations through Sasanian imports; Deyell connects that branch to named Pratihara epigraphic forms. Combined with Siyadoni obligations, this supports qualified compressed ancestry through Hunnic and regional stages, not a direct Qom-to-India transfer.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

912–913supported

A deed dated Vikrama 969 records1,850 Adivaraha drammas invested with liquor distillers. The912–913 CE range dates the recorded transaction, not the later inscription’s production or currency origin.

C2030
948–949supported

A Vikrama 1005 deed assigns a monthly one-third-dramma payment. The948–949 CE range preserves the calendrical conversion uncertainty.

C2031
968–969supported

A Vikrama 1025 deed assigns a quarter Adivaraha dramma from rent, witnessing the account in 968–969 CE.

C2032
Evidence & research notes 6 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C2029

Siyadoni deeds specify investments, rent and recurring payments in named dramma forms. Admit a scoped Pratihara/Siyadoni account profile; preserve the adivaraha and vigrahapala distinctions without assuming every regional dramma identical.

F. Kielhorn · Siyadoni Inscription, Epigraphia Indica I (1892) Citation S1066 · Open source ↗

pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025; pp.1–2, Indo-Sasanian currency zones; epigraphic vigrahapala and adivaraha forms; DOI10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00595

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Edition abstract/translation and chronology pp.167–169 inspected in OCR; copied older deed dates distinguished from inscription production.

John S. Deyell · Early Medieval Currency Pattern (North India), Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa (2021) Citation S1065 · Open source ↗

pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025; pp.1–2, Indo-Sasanian currency zones; epigraphic vigrahapala and adivaraha forms; DOI10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00595

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C2030

A deed dated Vikrama 969 records1,850 Adivaraha drammas invested with liquor distillers. The912–913 AD range dates the recorded transaction, not the later inscription’s production or currency origin.

F. Kielhorn · Siyadoni Inscription, Epigraphia Indica I (1892) Citation S1066 · Open source ↗

pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Edition abstract/translation and chronology pp.167–169 inspected in OCR; copied older deed dates distinguished from inscription production.

Supported C2031

A Vikrama 1005 deed assigns a monthly one-third-dramma payment. The948–949 AD range preserves the calendrical conversion uncertainty.

F. Kielhorn · Siyadoni Inscription, Epigraphia Indica I (1892) Citation S1066 · Open source ↗

pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Edition abstract/translation and chronology pp.167–169 inspected in OCR; copied older deed dates distinguished from inscription production.

Supported C2032

A Vikrama 1025 deed assigns a quarter Adivaraha dramma from rent, witnessing the account in 968–969 AD.

F. Kielhorn · Siyadoni Inscription, Epigraphia Indica I (1892) Citation S1066 · Open source ↗

pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Edition abstract/translation and chronology pp.167–169 inspected in OCR; copied older deed dates distinguished from inscription production.

Qualified C2035

Indo-Greek denominations spread into India, but De Romanis shows that drachm coins could circulate while accounts remained in karsapana. Neither that coin sequence nor a repeated dramma name establishes the missing medieval-to-Mughal account links.

Joe Cribb · Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, in Rachel Mairs, ed. (2020) Citation S1064

pp.666–669, Staters and drachmas; distinguish Indo-Greek and later Sasanian routes; pp.135–137, especially136 notes75–79; DOI10.17885/heiup.1582.c22725

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Federico De Romanis · Notes on Barygaza’s Trade: Commodities and Coins at an Asian Crossroads (2025) Citation S1067 · Open source ↗

pp.666–669, Staters and drachmas; distinguish Indo-Greek and later Sasanian routes; pp.135–137, especially136 notes75–79; DOI10.17885/heiup.1582.c22725

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C2040

Cribb traces medieval Indian dramma denominations through Sasanian imports; Deyell connects that branch to named Pratihara epigraphic forms. Combined with Siyadoni obligations, this supports qualified compressed ancestry through Hunnic and regional stages, not a direct Qom-to-India transfer.

Joe Cribb · Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, in Rachel Mairs, ed. (2020) Citation S1064

pp.666–669, Staters and drachmas; distinguish Indo-Greek and later Sasanian routes; pp.1–2, Indo-Sasanian currency zones; epigraphic vigrahapala and adivaraha forms; DOI10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00595; pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

John S. Deyell · Early Medieval Currency Pattern (North India), Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa (2021) Citation S1065 · Open source ↗

pp.666–669, Staters and drachmas; distinguish Indo-Greek and later Sasanian routes; pp.1–2, Indo-Sasanian currency zones; epigraphic vigrahapala and adivaraha forms; DOI10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00595; pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

F. Kielhorn · Siyadoni Inscription, Epigraphia Indica I (1892) Citation S1066 · Open source ↗

pp.666–669, Staters and drachmas; distinguish Indo-Greek and later Sasanian routes; pp.1–2, Indo-Sasanian currency zones; epigraphic vigrahapala and adivaraha forms; DOI10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00595; pp.167–169: deeds11,21 and final rent; Vikrama969,1005,1025

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Edition abstract/translation and chronology pp.167–169 inspected in OCR; copied older deed dates distinguished from inscription production.

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