J.72 y. A. Smith — IJisfory and Coinage of the Gupta, Period. [No. 4, 
Mr. Hewitt believes that the portion of that kingdom visited by 
Hiuen Tsiang is now the district of Manblium, which is held by the 
Rajas of Pachete, whose crest is a bull, and that the capital of the 
kingdom was Campa, the modern Bliagalpur. 1 
Dr. Waddell seeks to identify the capital with Kancannagar, 
a suburb of Bardwan. 2 
Both these identifications are certainly wrong, and based on false 
etymologies or other insufficient grounds. 
Mr. Beveridge gives excellent and substantial reasons for placing 
the capital of Karna-Suvarna at Raqgamati, in the Murshidabad dis¬ 
trict. 3 He is mistaken in supposing his identification to be a novelty. 4 * 
It had been made many years ago, and forgotten. A note in the Indian 
Antiquary for 1878, explains that in Hiuen-Tsiang’s text the word 
Kin-eul, ‘ golden-eared,’ or ‘ having gold in the ears,’corresponding to 
the Sanskrit Karna-Suvarna, refers to “ the town of Rangamatti, 
12 miles south of Murshidabad [which] stands on the site of an old 
city called Kurusona-ka-gadh , supposed to be a Bengali corruption of 
the name in the text: Jour., As. Soc. Beng., Vol XXII. (1853), pp. 281, 
282 ; Jour. R. As. Soc. (N.S. ), Vol. VI., p. 248.” B The discovery of the 
site of Karna-Suvarna is due to Captain L. P. Layard, whose paper 
entitled The ancient city of Kansonapuri, now called Rungamutty , was 
published in the Journal of this Society for 1853. 
It woald seem to be true that paipxijka was also known by the 
name of Narendra Gupta, though the evidence for the alleged fact is 
not conclusive. In 1879, Cunningham obseryed that “ Professor Hall 
has suggested that his full name may have been Sasangka Gupta ; but 
I learn from Dr. Biihler, that in the Jain books Sasangka is called 
Narendra Gupta.” 6 Dr. Biihler informs me that Cunningham’s re¬ 
ference to the Jain books is due to a misleading of a communication 
from Dr. Biihler, who really wrote that fh^aijka is called Narendra 
Gupta by Bana. The word Bana seems to have beeo misread as Jaina. 
A year earlier, in 1878, the anonymous writer in the Indian Antir 
quary, who has already been quoted, boldly made the assertion that 
C ac^axyka is called Narendra Gupta in the Harsacarita of Bapa. His words 
1 J., R. As. Soc., for 1893, pp. 294, 300. 
2 Proc., A. S. B., Dec. 1892, p. 184 ; Appendix to Discovery of the Exact Site of 
Aqdka's Capital of Pataliputra. (Calcutta, published by Government of Bengal, 1892). 
5 Proc., A. S. B., Dec. 1893, p. 172; J. A, S. B. } Vol. LXJI., Part 1 (1893), 
pp. 315-325. The Site of Karna-Suvarna. 
4 Ut supra, J., A. S. B., p 326. 
6 Ind. Ant., Yol. YII., p. 197, note 5. 
6 Reports, Vol. IX., p. 157. 
