The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c10.17

c10.17

These arguments, however, are not conclusive, and we are inclined to think it more probable that Kācha was different from Samudragupta. Chandragupta had no doubt another familiar name, *viz.* Devagupta. But he never allowed it to appear on his coinage. One may wonder whether Samudragupta would have permitted his familiar name to appear on his coins, supposing he had one such. *Sarvarājochchhettā* was no doubt made a special title of Samudragupta, but only by later Gupta records. Samudragupta himself did not adopt that title, and there is nothing impossible in its being adopted by an immediate successor of the great emperor, prior to its being assigned to him by his later successors.