1855.] On the Coins of the Gupta Dynasty. 499 



A second specimen of this type of coin in the collection of Major 

 Bush appears to vary the obverse legend — but the letters are too 

 much worn to be satisfactorily deciphered. 



Chandba Gupta Ilnd. 



Class C. 1.— J. A. S. B. IV. XXXIX. 18. Vol. V. XXXVI. 13. 

 XXXVIII. 9. A. A. XVIII. 4. Marsden No. ML. 



Obverse. Figure as above C. 2. 



Legends, imperfect. The following is a restored reading obtain- 

 ed from Col. Stacy's coins. 



flT ^ft *% XimT^-W^ ^f ^3TH. His Majesty. 



Under the arm $l}'' The RWT^J BO f ve ^ ei S n ■ of greafc 

 C?f) Kings, Chandra Crupta. 



Reverse. Parvati seated on an elevated throne with cornucopia 

 and regal fillet (in No. 18). The cornucopia is replaced by a flower 

 in the later specimens. 

 • Legend, ^Ttfa?iffi: " The illustrious hero." (A. A. 420.) 



Variant No. 1, No. MLVII. Marsden. 



The obverse device presents a modification in the arrangement 

 of the Bow, which is turned inwards and touches the side of the 

 figure — while the ^^ is inscribed in the field outside of the bow- 

 string. Legend, to the left, ^ff^^TIH. 



Among a batch of twenty gold coins found at Gopalpur on the 

 ■ Grogra river, on the site of the old Village Fort, ten miles west 

 of Burhul," in July 1854,* I observe a coin which corresponds very 

 closely with this variant, and confirms in the most definite manner 

 the reading of the right marginal legend already assigned to the 

 original type C. 2 — every letter is here indubitably to the following 

 effect. 



Class F.—J. A. S. B. V. XXXVIII. 6. 



Obverse. King on horseback proceeding to the right, with lance 

 at the charge. 



* Seven of those coins were submitted to the Government N. W. P. in May 

 last, by Mr. W. Roberts, the officiating Judge of Goruckpore — all these are from 

 the mints of Chandra Gupta 2nd. 



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