The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s2.9

c11.s2.9

In varieties E to J, the king is facing right. In variety E (Pl. VI. 11), lion is couchant to left and the goddess is sitting with both her legs hanging down; she has a noose in the r. hand and a cornucopiæ in the left. In variety F (Pl. VI. 12), the feet of the goddess are folded on the back of the couchant lion; her right hand is opened out and empty and the left one holds a lotus. In variety G (Pl. VI. 13), the goddess is seated astride the lion, her right hand holding a lotus and the left one hanging down empty by her side.