1865.] Coins of the Nine Nagas. 119 
2nd of Magadha in the year 93. But if we assign Chandra Gupta 
Ast to the year 93, we must then allow that he continued to reign for 
at of Sanaa years ajter the ageession of his own os yee -grandson the 
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> actual era Giant dynasty, and to attribute its 
establishment to Chandra Gupta Ist. 
6. According to this view the date of Samudra Gupta, and there- 
fore a so of his contemporary Ganapati Naga, would be the beginning 
of the second century, or about A. D.110. The dynasty of the Mine 
Nagas palsy saa be assigned to the first and second centuries of 
stian In the following list I have arranged the names of 
a kings Pisin to the devices on their coins, beginning 
Se types which seem to me to be the earliest on account of the 
ancient eo of their accompanying inscriptions. It is 
worthy of note, as corroboratory of the date which I have assigned to 
the Nagas that the whole of the devices on these copper coins are to 
be found on the silver coins of the Guptas themselves, or on those of 
hi. acknowledged contemporaries. 
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