646 New varieties of the [Oct. 



Gha(tot) Kacha.' The only portion of this inscription missing is 

 the second syllable of Ghatot, which may be replaced with confidence. 

 The Raja is sacrificing on the small Mithraic altar, and is dressed 

 much in the Kanerkos style, though more fashionably. 



Fig. 13. Next in succession to Kacha comes Chandra. Of his 

 coins I have already supplied several examples, (see Nov. 1835, fig. 

 18, also Marsden MLVII.,) but to keep up the comparison of the re- 

 verses, I here insert a very perfect sample from Lieut. Cunningham's 

 cabinet, procured at Mirzapur. Legend on the obverse ^T^'sl'^' 5 ? Raja 



Sri Chandra (the rest only partially visible), and under the arm again 



Chandra ; on the reverse "Q\fwWQ Sri Vihrama. I do not find any in- 

 stance of the name on this form of coin being written Chandra-gupta, 

 although it is distinctly so on the pillar-inscriptions. He is the first 

 to change the trident standard of OOHPKI for the (quasi) Roman 

 eagle. He also prefers the bow to the spear. 



Fig. 14. Lieut. Cunningham's, from Gaya, similar to my own(Capt. 

 Wade's) of fig. 1 6, Plate XXXVIII. Vol. IV. Fig. 1 7 of that plate is 

 another ; and seven are now known of the same type, dispersed among 

 us : but few, if any, have the marginal inscription so well developed. 

 As all the coins bearing simply Vikrama on them may be set down to 

 Chandra-gupta, so all having TCTsffW: Parakrama may be assigned 

 to his son Samudra-gupta the first. This legend is attached to the 

 same sitting female as before on the reverse. The Raja on the oppo- 

 site face is just like his predecessors in costume and attitude, with 

 spear and eagle standard. 



By means of Messrs. Cunningham's and Tregear's coins, added 

 to my former specimen, the long legend on the obverse can be nearly 

 all restored ; it appears to be ^*j*r Hrf tt«TJT. . . . "srsr^STfr^. . . . Samara 

 satamataga (ja). . . . which may be translated ' having the strength of 

 100 must elephants,' and on the opposite margin vijayajatara. ... In 

 my former specimen, however, the final portion read Aparajita davaja. 



Under the arm the word WT?f Samudra is written in the perpen- 

 dicular form, the u being apparently placed above the m, because the 

 d had taken its proper position below. 



Fig. 15 is another Chandra-gupta, from Col. Stacy's box, of 

 which Mr. Tregear has a duplicate. Another is engraved in Mars- 

 den, fig. MLVIII. From the alteration of the device, and particularly 

 the omission of the fire altar on this coin, we might with plausibility set 

 it down to Chandra-gupta the second, — but on the same authority 

 we might make two Samudras ; for these princes seem to have imitated 

 one another so closely, that we find the device of the Raja and his wife 



