The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c13.s6.4

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c13.s6.4

*Obv:* King bare-headed, riding a caparisoned elephant, furiously advanciug to r., raising his r. hand holding a dagger in the posture of attack. Dwarf behind him, holding a *chhatra* over his head. A lion is in front of the elephant, which the latter is about to trample with l. fore-leg; the lion tries to bite the r. front leg of the elephant by opening its jaw. Circular legend is uncertain and incomplete. It begins wiht *Kshata*; probably it may have been the same as that on the Elephant-rider type, *Kshataripu-Kumāragupto rājatrātā jayati ripūn* (Pl. XXIII. 40). The metre is Upagīti.

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