The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c10.16

c10.16

Arguments (d) and (e) are weighty; they render it probable that Samudragupta may have had like Chandragupta II, two names, and both may have been used on his coinage; the epithet of Kācha, *sarvarājochchhettā* would show that he is to be identified with Samudragupta to whom alone it is given in the official Gupta inscriptions. Samudragupta may have had an additional name Kāchagupta, just as his son Chandragupta had a second familiar name, Devagupta.