190 V. A. Smith— History and Coinage of the Gujpta Period. [No. 4, 
The obverses of two specimens of Udayaditya’s coinage are depicted 
in very clear woodcuts (Nos. 3 and 4, Yol. I, p. 411) in Prinsep’s 
Essays. The legend is perfectly legible and unmistakeable, except for 
the second and third character of the second word. Prinsep read the 
word as Lamata. Cunningham reads it doubtfully as Lakhana. The 
first character is certainly La, and, in the woodcuts ; the third 
character seems to be <T ta , not na. The medial character is dubious. 
It is unfortunate that the second word of the legend, which must be the 
real personal name, is doubtful. Udaydditya appears to be a mere title, 
similar to the Yikramaditya , Baladitya , and other titles of like formation 
assumed by the Gupta kings. 
Cunningham suggests that the Udayaditya coins may have been 
struck by Lae-lih, the father of Toramana. 1 
A large class of anonymous coins, devoid of any kind of legend, 
should probably be arranged as a sub-division of the Sassanian Bust 
coins of Toramana. 
A hoard of 175 silver Indo-Sassanian coins found somewhere in 
Marwara was examined by Dr. Hoernle. The coins were of the ordi¬ 
nary Indo-Sassanian pattern, the obverse device being that of the 
king’s bust to right, and the reverse that of a fire-altar with supporters. 
These coins copy so closely the issue of Firuz, king of Persia from 
A.D. 459-486, 2 while they omit his name, that they must be regarded 
as nearly contemporary imitations of his coinage. Dr. Hoernle shows 
that the coins found in Marwara reproduce “every one” of the details 
which characterize the later period {circa A.D. 471-486) of the reign 
of Firuz, “ though in somewhat cruder execution.” The only exception 
is that the Marwara coins have no legend whatsoever. These coins are 
readily divisible into two classes, one with the king’s head of distinctly 
Sassanian type, and the second, much less numerous, with a king’s head 
of rude, thick-lipped, barbarian type. 
Dr. Hoernle’s assignment of these uninscribed Indo-Sassanian coins 
to Toramana having been ignored by Cunningham, I had better give 
Dr. Hoernle’s very cogent arguments in his own words : — 
“ The age of the coins may be determined by their remarkably 
close imitation of Firuz’s coins. 
They cannot be genuine coins of Firuz for two reasons, (1) be- 
1 Trans., p. 228. The coin of Purvaditya (woodcut No. 2) and others belong to 
the same class (Prinsep’s Essays, l. c.; Num. Chron. for 1894, pp. 285 seqq.) 
2 Cunningham places the death of Firuz and his defeat by the Huns in A.D. 
483. Gibbon (cliap. xl), gives the date as A.D. 488, and observes in the note that 
“ the chronology has been ably ascertained by Asseman ( Biblio . Orient, iii, p. 396).” 
