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'''Agaraju''' ({{IAST|Agarāju}}) was a king of [[Kosambi]].<ref name="Olivelle2006"/> While he is known as Agaraju in his coins, he was also known as {{IAST|Angārajyut}}.<ref name="Pieper2013"/> 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>

==Name==
Many of the rulers of Mitra dynasty bear the suffix "-mitra" in their names.<ref name="Olivelle2006"/>

==Genealogy==

A genealogy constructed from the [[Bharhut inscriptions]] suggest he may have been father of [[Dhanabhuti]], who is known for the Bharhut inscriptions. [[Visvadeva]] would be father of Agaraju.<ref name="Bajpai2004">{{cite book|author=K. D. Bajpai|title=Indian Numismatic Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chGrJUMarHoC&pg=PA39|date=October 2004|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-035-8|pages=40–41}}</ref>

He is considered to be an early ruler in the dynasty.<ref name="Pieper2013"/>

==Coins of Agaraju==
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, 98}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:2nd-century BC Indian monarchs]]

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