486 On the Coins of the Gupta Dynasty. [No. 6. 



The data for this list will be found under the following references : 

 I. Allahabad lat, second Inscription (J. A. S. B. iii. 257 and vi. 

 969.)* " IT. Mills" Bhitdri lat Inscription (J. A. S. B. YI. 1 ;) III. 

 2nd Skanda Gupta Inscription Kuhaon pillar (J. A. S. B. VII. 37 ;) 

 IV. The partially deciphered Skanda Gupta Inscription on the 

 Bock at Junagad in Guzrat (J. A. S. B. VII. 348,) and new tran- 

 script of the same writing (Journal Bombay Branch Eoy. As. 

 Soc. April, 1842 ;) V. Chandra Gupta Inscription on the eastern 

 gate of the Buddhist Tope at Sanchi near Bhilsa (J. A. S. B. 

 VI. 455.) Udayagiri ditto " Bhilsa Topes" p. 151.f VI. Budha 



successor of Skanda Gupta is based rather upon his coins, which seem naturally to 

 follow suit, than upon the record on the Bhitari lat regarding which, Professor 

 Mill remarks as follows : " This worthy worshipper of Siva and Duarga [Skanda 

 Gupta] ascends to heaven: and his brother and the other chiefs, with mingled 

 feelings of grief and affectionate allegiance proclaim his young child the heir to his 

 father's crown and conquests. This youth is described as obedient to the Queen 

 dowager his mother, as was Crishna to his mother Devaki ; but the part of the 

 inscription that proceeds to speak of him is confused and unintelligible ; neither 

 does he appear to be once named ; unless we conceive some letters of line eighteen 

 to give his name thus: Mahesa-priti-Gupta, (the Gupta attacked to Siva or 

 beloved by Siva.) He is probably the Mahendra Gupta whose name occurs in 

 several of the newly discovered coins of this dynasty." (J. A. S. B. VI. 8.) 



Major Cunningham suppresses Mahendra Gupta altogether, though he does not 

 assign his reasons for so doing, but in compensation he gives us two Skanda Gup- 

 tas, the second of whom he distinguishes by the title of Lagraditya or Lohaditya, 

 making him succeed directly after the great Skanda Gupta for whom he reserves 

 the title of Kramaditya I (Bhilsa Topes, 141.) 



* Since the publication of my previous remarks on the Daiva putra Shahi of 

 the Allahabad column Inscription ( No. V. p. 389 ) I have had an opportunity 

 of examining that monument, and have satisfied myself that the correct reading 



is t«r V* ^f% ^T*T ^f% 



f Major Cunningham, in his work on the Bhilsa Topes has given a fac- 

 simile as well as an English transcript and translation of this Inscription : the two 

 latter are as follows : 



"Siddham samvatsare 82 Sravana-masa suklekadasya " 



" Parama-Bhattaraka Maharajadhi Chandra. Gupta pada na da ta sya." 



11 Maharaja Chagaliga potrasya, Maharaja Vishnu-dAsa putrasya." 



Sanakanikasya Maha (raja * * * " 



" Finished in the year 82, on the 11th of the bright half of the month of Sra- 



