The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c13.s9.16

c13.s9.16

*Obv:* King, standing nimbate, bare-headed and bare-bodied, with sash round his waist and falling down, wearing *sakachchha dhotī* and jewelry⁶ and offering to the peacock, facing him, a twig of grapes held in r. hand; l. hand hangs on the hip. Legend beginning at I, *jayati svaguṇairguṇa*... and ending with *Mahendrakumāraḥ* (Pl. XXII. 33), ‘Victorious by his own merit is Mahendrakumāra, [a heap of merit (?)]’