The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c18.s2.2

c18.s2.2

The question of the identity of Harigupta is not easy to settle. His name suggests Gupta affiliation and one of his types, the Chhatra one, is in close imitation of the same type of the Imperial Guptas. But his gold coins have not yet come to light; it is therefore likely that he was a local ruler in Uttara-Pañchāla (Rohilkhand) ruling over a petty kingdom and not a scion of the Imperial Gupta dynasty.