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



Unpublished Variety of C. Weight 120 gr. Major Bush. 

 Obverse — device as in class C. 



Legend — 5 or 6 letters illegible <-f ^ <T ?T ^ «T "3" f^f cT^ XT K "5T cT 

 ^ ^ «f one letter or more obliterated. On the sides of the Javelin 



Reverse — as usual. 



Class C. 1.— J. A. S. B. Vol. IV. PL XXXIX. fig. 19, A. A. 

 XVIII. 7 and 8. 



Obverse. The general outline of the device is the same as in 

 Class C, except that the Peacock Standard is now adorned with 

 Pennons — and a further modification occurs, in the substitution of 

 a bow for the previously adopted javelin, while the arrow in the 

 right hand of the King supersedes the Indo-Scythic Altar, which 

 is henceforth altogether discarded. 



Legends are usually defective ; Prof. "Wilson detects the word 

 Vijaya on the margin of No. 8, and there is a most tantalizingly 

 long legend in continuation on coin 7 — which it would be hazardous 

 to attempt to read from any mere mechanical engraving. 



Reverse — Parvati, as in class C. 



Legend. — ^^f^C^t " ^ ue invincible in his War-Chariot." 



This term is applied to Samudra in the Allahabad lat Inscription 



Uf^^fTyrsrf^T'C^r^T "whom in his war-chariot none in the world 



can rival or withstand." (J. A. S. B. VI. 975). 



Professor Wilson renders Apratiratha as the ' unsurpassed war- 

 rior,' " a genuine Sanskrit title." (A. A. 420, 424). 



Class C. 2— J. A. S. B. IV. PL XXXIX. 23, Vol. V. XXXVI. 

 II. A. A. XVIII. 10. 



Obverse. Figure of the King, in a slightly varied attitude, the 

 right hand rests on the hip-joint, the left is placed on the head of 

 the Battle-axe — to the front of the monarch is a standard sur- 

 mounted by the device of a new moon below or beyond which, is 

 the figure of a youth.* (The A. A. coin reverses the position of 

 the two figures.) 



* " Of him [Samudra Gupta], when the accepted son was pronounced to be 

 the son of Devi, daughter of Mahadaitya." Bhitaii Lat, J. A. S. B. VI. 6. 



