The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s8.3

c11.s8.3

*Obv:* God Chakrapurusha, (personification of *Sudarśana-chakra* of Vishnu) is standing to right within a double-rimmed wheel, oval in shape and going round his entire person above the knees. The spokes of the rim are indicated by its knobs appearing outside the inner and outer rims of the wheel and its extant portion shows 38 or 39 of them. The deity is wearing a crown but is bare-bodied, wearing *dhoti*, necklace and wristlets, holding a mace (*gadā*) in the left hand hanging by his side and offering by right hand, bent and raised up, three round objects, held in his palm, to king standing facing him, nimbate, bare-headed, and wearing earrings, necklace, armlets, tunic and trousers with prominent folds round the legs. He is extending his right hand, bent up, to receive the divine gift; his left hand is placed on the hilt of a sword hanging by the left leg. The sword is fastened by a strap to the king's waist, which passes through a hole in the hilt. No legend on the obverse.