252 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
the theories of each are beset with further difficulties which 
have not yet been solved. 
I shall now consider the other views on -the subject, 
referred to above. which differ only as regards the relation of 
Puragupta and Skandagupta. Mr. Panna Lall and Dr. V. 
Smith think that Puragupta was the successor of Skandagupta, 
and offer the following chronological table :—! 
Kuméaragupta I, A.D, 414-455. 
| | 
Skandagupta, Puragupta, 
A.D. 455-467 A.D. 467-c. 469 
| 
Narasithhagupta 
Baladitya 
ce. A.D. 469-c. 473 
| 
Kumaragupta II, 
A.D. 473-477 
Budhagupta, 
(parentage not known) 
A.D, 477-c. 494 
on this ground that I urged 
most probably identical with S 
rival king. 
Mr 
Kumaragupta | and the father of Narasimhagupta. This coin 
also proves that this prince Puragupta was quite different from 
ir. Banszji evidently forgets the Kaca type of Samudra- 
gupta’s coinage. Fleet,’ V. Smith* and Allan have all attri- 
: -R.A.S., 1919, p. 262. 
Pp. cit., pp. 73-74. The Itali a 
OL. Vor I, AB om ee 
* Ind. Ant., 1902, pp. 259-60, 
