The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s8.6

c11.s8.6

Chandragupta II was a great devotee of Vishnu, as is shown by one of his coin legends which describes him as *paramabhāgavata*. He also appears to have erected a *Garuda-dhvaja* at the famous *tirtha* of Vishnupada somewhere on the Beas in the South-eastern Punjab.¹ The present type shows how he claimed to be the direct recipient of a favour from god Chakrapurusha, one of the *Ayudhapurushas* of Vishnu, who in the Gupta age, was believed to personify the power of Vishnu himself.