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'''Sarpamitra''' (also known as ''Sapamita'') was a king of [[Kosambi]] in [[India]]. He was part of the [[Mitra dynasty (Kosambi)|Mitra dynasty]] of Kosambi.<ref name="Olivelle2006">{{cite book|author=Patrick Olivelle|title=Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efaOR_-YsIcC&pg=PA85|date=13 July 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-977507-1|page=85}}</ref><br />
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He may have ruled somewhere around the 1st century BCE or the 1st century CE.<ref name="Gyani">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.78739|title=The Journal Of The Numismatic Society Of India Vol 3 Amp 4|date=25 March 1941|via=Internet Archive|pages=135–136}}</ref><br />
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==Name==<br />
Many of the rulers of the [[Mitra dynasty (Kosambi)|Mitra dynasty]] bear the suffix "-mitra" in their names.<ref name="Olivelle2006"/> The first part of his name, ''Sarpa-'', while rare is synonymous with ''[[Nāga|Naga]]''. Naga is a more common part in the names of monarchs in Northern and Southern India.<ref name="Gyani"/><br />
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==Coins of Sarpamitra==<br />
Most rulers of the Mitra dynasty of Kosambi, except [[Radhamitra]], have the symbol known as the tree-in-railing in their coins. Another common symbol is the [[Ujjain]] symbol.<ref name="Goyala1994">{{cite book|author=Śrīrāma Goyala|title=The Coinage of Ancient India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jVmAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Kusumanjali Prakashan|page=188}}</ref> [[Bull]] is a common animal to appear on the coinage of Kosambi of the era.<ref name="Pieper2013">{{cite book|author=Wilfried Pieper|title=Ancient Indian Coins Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PdLvjgEACAAJ|year=2013|publisher=Classical Numismatic Group|isbn=978-0-9837652-6-4|pages=95–96}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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