254 Journal: of the Asiatic:Society.of Bengal. [N.S., X VAI, 
story of. Sha-Jahan and:his ,quarrelling sons,, The goddess of 
sovereignty, however, as the. Junagadh inscription informs us, 
umar Skanda- 
Then, again, we read,in.the Bhitari pillar inscription. that 
when his father had died, Skandagupta ‘‘ conquered, his enemies 
i b. 
between Krishna and Devaki? Is it simply the defeat and 
death of the enemy which preceded it that constituted the 
Or,. re 
mother was not probably the chief queen, shall we go further 
hat the 
words, are we. to suppose. that. Puragupta was defeated and 
probably killed by Skandagupta, and then the mother, who 
had hitherto lived an obscure life in the harem. of Kumara- 
they were rival kings. ) 
Mr. Allan concludes from an examination of the coins 
1 Ibid., p. 55. 
