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(gq) The horse-sacrifice class of these coins was evidently 
issued by a king, who claimed paramount power and had 
celebrated a horse-sacrifice. 
(h) One of these horse sacrifice coins was found with both 
a coin of Sasanka and one of the Samachara Deva. Judging 
from the debased character of these coins, it would appear 
that they were issued by a king, who claimed paramount 
power and who had celebrated a horse-sacrifice after the dis- 
appearance of Harsavardhana and Sasanka from the political 
arena. 
The only reasonable conclusion that can be deduced from 
the above points is, that the dynasty that satisfies all these 
conditions is the Gupta dynasty of Magadha, whose first king, 
Aditya Sena Deva, rose to paramount power in Eastern India 
immediately after the death of Harsavardhana and celebrated 
a horse-sacrifice. The Deoghar inscription which mentions 
this king (Fleet, p. 213), though much later in date, is evident- 
ly based on a contemporary inscription, and appears to record 
a genuine tradition about him. It says that Aditya Sena was 
the performer of the Asvamedha and other sacrifices: that 
he. having returned from the Chola country, performed three 
Asvamedha sacrifices and consecrated a temple at the expense 
of three lakhs of tankakas of gold. 
The origin cf the Gupta kings of Magadha is traced from 
one Krisna Gupta in the Apshad inscription of Aditya Sena 
(Fleet. No. 42) This line had matrimonial alliances with the 
Vardhana and the Maukhari kings, Prabhakara Vardhana 
being son of Mahasena Gupta, sister of Mahasena Gupta. 
Mahasena’s son was Madhava, who threw in his lot with his 
nephew Harsavardhana, and Madhava’s son was Aditya Sena. 
Krisna Gupta, eighth in ascent from Aditya Sena, it has been 
suggested, was identical with Govinda Gupta (R. D. Banerji, 
History of Bengal, Part 1, p. 76), second son of Chandra 
Gupta IT; but except that the name Krisna and Govinda are 
Synonymous, and the fact that the time of Krishna Gupta may 
be pushed back to the time of Govinda Gupta, there is no 
other ground for the identification. 
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