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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I.— History Literature &c. 1884

1884

I am also disposed to believe that in most of the types of the Gupta gold coins the figure of the king on the obverse is intended to represent him idealized as a god and that in the case of Gluttot Kacha ho is represented in the character of the solar god shedding beneficent influences upon. [...] It is perhaps possible that a close comparison between the forms of the Roman and the Gupta cornucopia might help in settling the great question of the Gupta dates.§ According to the chronology which I adopt the last appearance of the cornucopia on the Gupta coins is to be dated about 240 A. D. I regard the standing goddess on the reverse of the coins of Ghatot Kaolin. [...] as the equivalent of the Greek and Seleucid rxix)7 and of the Roman Fortuna and believe her to be a copy in part of the Fortuna Augusti and similar figures on Roman Whitt and in part of the elemental goddesses on the reverse of the Ludo-Scythian coins. [...] But the translation of the Bhitari inscription is avowedly imperfect and until it has been revised by a competent scholar is of little use for historical purposes.* The interpretation of the device of the throned goddess requires no assumption as to the sectarian preferences of the early Guptas for the attributes of the figure are manifestly those of Lakshmi rather than of Pirrvati and I vent [...] The same crescent-tipped standard occurs on the reverse of the unique Tiger coin of the same king on the obverse of which the king is depicted as slaying a tiger.§ The obverse device of this coin is the model of three types of Chandra Gupta II and two of Kumara Gupta Mahendra in which the tiger is replaced by a lion.
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Pages
183
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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A Classified and Detailed Catalogue of the Gold Coins of the Imperial Gupta Dynasty of Northern India with an Introductory Essay.—By V.A. Smith B.A. Dubl B.C.S.
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A Paper on the Medals Known as Ramtinis.—By J. Gibbs F.R.G.S. M.R.A.S. V.P.B.A.S.
207-214 unknown view
On the Geography of India in to Reign of Akbar.—By John Beames B.C.S.
215-232 unknown view
Baiswári Folk Songs Collected by Bábú Jogendra Náth Rae Gházipur
232-259 unknown view
Notes from Varáha Mihira’s Panchasiddhánliká.—By G. Thibaut Phi. Dr.
259-293 unknown view
Addendum
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