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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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    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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    from 180 BC to 160 BC, or between 174 and 165 BC (first dating by Osmund Bopearachchi and R. C. Senior, second dating by Boperachchi) who ruled the western...
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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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    ISBN 978-2-7177-1825-6. Bopearachchi, Osmund (1998). SNG 9. New York: American Numismatic Society. ISBN 978-0-89722-273-0. Bopearachchi, Osmund (2003). De l'Indus...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • have been criticized by other scholars, such as Johannes Bronkhorst Osmund Bopearachchi Stephen Batchelor and Charles Goodman. The Tibetan Empire in Central...
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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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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  • Anselmo Banduri Jacob de Bie Carmen Arnold Biucchi Mark Blackburn Osmund Bopearachchi Bartolomeo Borghesi Claude Gros de Boze Guillaume Budé Andrew Burnett...
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    derived from the latest and most extensive analysis on the subject, by Osmund Bopearachchi and R. C. Senior. The invasion of northern India, and the establishment...
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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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    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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    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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  • Numismatic Studies. Abhinav Publications. p. 96. ISBN 978-81-7017-035-8. Osmund Bopearachchi; Wilfried Pieper (1998). Ancient Indian coins. Brepols. pp. 55, 57...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    studies: new perspectives. Firma KLM. p. 13. ISBN 81-7102-109-3. Osmund Bopearachchi; Wilfried Pieper (1998). Ancient Indian coins. Brepols. ISBN 2-503-50730-1...
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    studies: new perspectives. Firma KLM. p. 13. ISBN 81-7102-109-3. Osmund Bopearachchi; Wilfried Pieper (1998). Ancient Indian coins. Brepols. ISBN 2-503-50730-1...
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  • Pakistani bazaars and private collections. Historian and numismatist, Osmund Bopearachchi describes the gravity of loss: "The objects that I have seen personally...
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