56 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
lotus. She has a lotus bud with a —_ in ree hand, ree a 
noose in the right hand. To tk t of the head of t 
goddess, what appears to be an sicataiiet Fea dioe is seen, 
and on the left margin occurs the legend Narendravinata, in 
blurred characters 
2) Coin of Samachara Deve 
Metal, alloyed gold, slightly purer than No. Ll. Wezght, 
149 grs. Size, °8. 
Obverse,—The king, nimbate, sits on a couch in (for coins) 
uniqte rajalila pose, and looks to his right. His left hand is 
raised, apparently touching the chin of the female figure 
standing to the left, or pointing to the lettering above, compos: 
ing the first two letters of his name. The right hand is placed 
‘on Bs lad in a manner which, taken with the pose of the 
head, s to express indifference or defiance to the female 
figure aeavclitas to elie right, though the meaning of the pose is 
not very clear. Above the pointing left hand occurs Samia, 
below the couch cha, ad etic the feet of the female figure 
to the right of the king, r 
Reverse.—The go =e Sarasvatt,! nimbate, stands in a lotus 
bed in Tribhanga pose, looking to her right, the left hand resting 
on a lotus with a bent stalk, while the goddess draws another 
lotus to her face (as if to smell it) with her right hand. A lotus 
bud is on a stalk below the bend of the right hand ; below 
which again is a hamsa (swan), with neck stretched upwards. 
Two fan-like lotus Jeaves are visible on the two edges of the 
coin. On the left mar gin occurs the legend Narendravinata. 
The reverse type is also u 
Some conclusions foie themselves upon the careful observer 
of these two coins: 
e King was jae dertaily not of the Gupta lineage. though 
he may well have been a successor of Bis ai uptas, in the 
dominions where the Guptas had once held s 
(2) Samachara must, on palaeographic neaate be placed 
earlier than Sasanka in chronology ; also there is no place’ for 
Samachara in chronology after Sasanka, whose immediate 
successors in Eastern India were Aditya Sens and his descen- 
dants in the west and the Khudgas in the e 
(2) He was a devout Saiva. The apenas of the Bull 
symbol by Sasanka, a as Woll’as tlie facts: - ) that os coment ala coin 
Sasinka in the kingdom of Gauda, and of the same lineage, 
os his father. 
ene oe oe 
: Allan ‘oie. the agus: Larne bist: ‘Hiosa; the} swan, is ordinarily 
associated only with the goddess of learning, Sarasvati. 
