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



Legend, -qj^ %f ^xRflTTr: 



Beverse. Parvati seated on an Indian Morha, with fillet and 

 flower. 



Legend, ^f^fcf pjs{W 



Ktjmaea Gupta. 

 Class C. 1. — Freeling (unpublished. )f 

 Obverse. Device as is usual in this type. 

 Legend on the margin * ?T^TT!T«rf%I^T«f * * 



(* 



Below the arm < n 



Reverse. Parvati seated cross-legged on a lotus, the right hand 

 holds a fillet, or at times, a flower — the left rests either upon the 

 knee or on the side of the figure. 



Legend "sffjf^^ ^ri Mahendra. 



Variety No. 1. J. A. S. B. V. XXXVI. 16. A. A. XVIII. 11. 

 the name of the King is given, in this coin, as above, but it is 

 placed in a line with the bow-string outside the arm of the figure as 

 in variant No. 1, (L 2, of Chandra Gupta Ilnd. 



Variety No. 2. J. A. S. B. V. XXXVI. 20. A. A. XVIII. 12. 



Obverse. Device as usual. 



Legend * ofSjflr T%^ * * under the arm 3[ # 



Variety No. 3. An unpublished coin in the Prinsep Collection 

 B. M. 



Obverse. General device as in No. 2. 



Legend on the margin : this I am unable, at this moment, to 

 transcribe, but it concludes with the name of Kumara. 



Reverse. Device as above. 



Legend. ^^*rK JJTf. 



Variety No. 4. ^reeling. W. 125 gr. 



Obverse. Device as in No. 2. 



Legend * * * ^ — fafsnU^fTT^t^TTftr. See silver coins 

 infra, class 1 2 3 &c. 



* *T^T VHTT^in i s one °f tne Prefixes to Chandra Gupta's name in the Bhitari 

 Lit Inscription, J. A. S. B. VI. 4. 



f This coin,, though a cast, appears to have been taken from genuine original. 



