The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c13.s6.5

c13.s6.5

*Rev:* Goddess, nimbate, wearing earrings, necklace, bangles, and armlets, with hair on head tied in a knot above the neck, standing three-fourths to r. on a lotus, but looking to l., and holding in r. hand some indistinct object before a peacock looking up towards it; l. hand resting on waist and holding a lotus with long stalk. The goddess is wearing a *sārī*, and an upper garment, whose ends are hanging on her either side. No symbol. Legend partly on the l. and partly on the r., *Siṃhanihantā Mahendragajaḥ*., (Pl. XXIV. 68); ‘The elephant of king Mahendra, destroyer of lion.’