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



the fashion of the Indo-Scythians, the right hand is extended 

 towards a small Mithraic altar, the left clasps the symbol standard 

 of the moon.* 



Legend " Kama-naruttam-ja Gha (tot) Kacha. Son of an ex- 

 cellent man resembling Kama, Ghatot Kacha. [Prinsep V. 645.] 



Under the left arm I 



'Reverse. Female figure erect, holding a flower in the right hand, 

 and supporting a Cornucopia on the left arm. The latter is sup- 

 posed to identify the figure with the Parvati of the APAOKPO. 

 Reverse of No. 9, PL XXXYI. Vol. Y. and No. 9, of XXXVIII. 

 Vol. IV. Monogram Variant of 155. Ariana Antiqua.f 



Legend — ^"^XT^n"^^. The exterminator of all Bajas. 



My collated decipherment of the obverse marginal legends gives 

 the following result. 



Professor Hall suggests, 



"Kacha, having overcome Ansu, reigns by virtue of excellent 

 deeds." 



* J. A. S. B. IV. 375. Harsha Inscription XVIII. " By whom was placed on 

 the top of the house of Siva, his own appropriate emblem, the golden figure of a 

 full moon." 



T The monogram in the three coins which have not been engraved in the Journal 

 Asiatic Society Bengal, differs slightly from the form to be seen in fig. 12 above 

 cited. Professor Wilson, in adverting to the general subject of Gupta monograms, 

 offers the following observations. 



u There is also another remarkabls proof of the connexion [between the Gupta 

 and the Mithraic series,] in the use of the same monogram that is found upon the 

 coins of Soter, Megas, Kadphises and Kanerki. Agreeably to the purport which 

 there seems reason to assign to these monograms, the recurrence of this emblem on 

 all* these coins should denote the place of their coinage; but, as above observed, 

 we have no reason to place these princes on the west any more than we have to 

 bring the Indo-Scythians far to the east of the Indus. It is therefore, perhaps, 

 merely a proof of imitation, and has been introduced without any definite object. 

 It is of use, however, in addition to other resemblances, as evidence that the coins 

 of the Gupta princes succeeded immediately to those of the Mithraic princes." 

 (A. A. 418.) 



