314 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (N.S., XVII. 
of Paramabhatiaraka and Maharajadhiraja. 
We shall now proceed to give a brief account of the later 
Gupta monarchs. The immediate successor of Skanda Gupta 
tion by Smith and Hoernle.? This seal describes Pura Gupta 
as the son of Kumara Gupta I by the queen Ananta Devi, and 
does not mention Skanda Gupta. The mention of Pura Gupta 
immediately after Kumara Gupta with the prefix Tatpadanu- 
yata does not necessarily prove that Pura Gupta was the 
immediate successor of his father, and a contemporary and rival 
of his brother Skanda Gupta. In the Manahali grant Mada- 
napala is described as “‘ Sri Ramapala Deva Padanudhyata id 
although he was preceded by his elder brother Kumarapala. 
Dr. Smith has proved that Skanda Gupta ruled over the whole 
empire including the eastern and the central as well as the wes- 
tern provinces.’ There is no room for a rival Mahara jadhiraja 
_in Northern India during his reign. He was a man of mature 
years ° at the time of his accession and must have been an old 
man at the time of his death c. A.D. 467. His brother and 
Sri Vatsadevi, the mother of Narasimha Gupta Baladitya. , 
The coins of Pura Gupta have the reverse legend Sri 
2 212-13. 
8 J.A . 84-105. 
4 A.K, Maitreya, Gauda lekhamaila, p. 153. 
6 The Early History of India, 1914, pp. 309-10. 6 Op. cit., p. 309. 
7 Dr. R. C. Majumdar, The Revised Chronology of the last Gupta 
Emperors, Indian Antiquary, 1918, p. 161 et seq. 
8 Allan, Catalogue of the coins of the Gupta Dynasties, p. 134. 
