The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c13.s2.6

c13.s2.6

This would show that we cannot draw positive and definite conclusions from the absence of regal titles on any particular type. On the obverse legend of the present type, the regal title is omitted probably owing to metrical exigencies. The reverse legend was traditionally small; hence the absence of titles or the presence of only short ones like *rājā* in *Rājā Samudraguptaḥ* on the Tiger-slayer type of Samudragupta.