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1894.] V. A. Smith —History and Coinage of the Gupta Period . 
are “ In Chinese Yuel , ‘ moon.’ This is S'asanka Narendra Gupta of 
Bana’s Uarshacharita ; ” and again, “ Rajyavardhana.himself was de¬ 
feated and killed by S'asanka Narendra Gupta, king of Gauda or Bengal 
and succeeded by his younger brother Harsh a, whom his officers urged to 
avenge his brother’s death. But the Hindu epic breaks off on the re¬ 
covery of Rajyasri among the Vindhya mountains—See Hall’s Vasava- 
datt&, pp. 51, 52 ; Jour., Bo. Br. R t As. Soc ., Vol. X., pp. 38-45.” 1 
The English authorities quoted do not support the assertion that 
f^aqka is called Narendra Gupta by Bana, and none of the writers 
referred to cites any passage from Bana’s text. The manuscript used by 
Hall apparently gave fac^arjka the cognomen of Gupta, because Hall 
states (p. 52) that Gupta, king of Gauda, slew Rajyavardhana. Hiuen 
Tsiang relates that Rajyavardhana was treacherously slain by £a 9 ai)ka, 
king of Rarnasuvarna in Eastern India. 2 3 * * * * Assuming both writers to be 
stating the truth, it follows that fte^aijka, king of Rarnasuvarna, is 
identical with Gupta, king of Gauda. The fact of the treacherous mur¬ 
der of Rajyavardhana is confirmed by the Madhuban copper-plate of 
Harsavardhana. 8 Dr. Biililer states that one manuscript of the Harsa- 
carita does give the full name of Narendra Gupta to ^a^aijka. 
The translation of the Harsa-carita, which Professor Cowell and 
Mr. Thomas have undertaken for the Oriental Translation Fund, will 
probably do much to clear up the history of Northern India at the 
beginning of the seventh century A.D. 
PART III.— Gupta Copper Coins. 
Candra Gupta II. 
Maharaja Type. (New). 
Obv .—Bust of king, bareheaded, to 1., with flower held between 
finger and thumb of r. hand, as in the Vikramaditya Bust type 
1 Hiwan Thsang's account of Harshavardhand, Ind. Ant., Yol. VII., (August 
1878), p. 197, notes 4, 6. The paper in the Bombay Asiatic Society's Journal referred 
to is one by the late Dr. Bhau DajI, entitled The Marsha-char ita of Bdna, which 
tvas read on 10th Angust, 1871. 
2 Beal, Buddhist Records of the Western World, Yol. I., p 210. 
3 This inscription states that the prince “ gave up his life in the mansion of his 
foe, owing to his adherence to a promise.” (Biihler on The Madhuban Copper-Plate 
of Harsa, dated Samvat 25, in Epigraphia Indica, Yol. I., p 70.) Two other inscrip* 
tions of Harsavardhana are now known, namely, the Sont seal (Fleet, Gupta 
Inscriptions, p. 231, PI. xxxi., B.), and the Banskliera copperplate, dated 32 
( = A.D. 638), recently discovered twenty-^five miles from Shahjahanpur ( Pioneer, 
September 21st, 1894). 
