Jital - Spalapati Deva

The Kabul Shahis controlled the Hindu Kush corridor at a moment when the Umayyad and later Abbasid caliphates were pressing hard from the west and the expanding Pratihara power was consolidating to the east. The dynasty held. These jitals — struck across a broad century-long window — functioned as the commercial currency of a polity that Arab geographers described in considerable detail, suggesting active trade rather than a purely tribute economy.

Spalapati Deva is among the lesser-documented rulers in the sequence, and attribution within the dynasty remains contested between Tye and Mitchiner on chronological grounds.