The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c18.s6.4

c18.s6.4

The *biruda* on the reverse of both the coins was read as Narendrāditya by J. Allan, N. K. Bhattasali, and R. D. Banerji;¹ the last mentioned scholar had carefully examined these two coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta and opined that the legend was *Narendravinīta*. A careful examination of the better photographs reproduced in the *I.M.C.*, I, Pl. XVI., Nos. 11 and 13, shows that the legend clearly consists of six letter, as is also shown by the photographs reproduced in the *B.M.C.*, *G.D.*, Pl. XXIV. 4 and 5. It is clear that after *Narendra* there are three more letters, the last two of which cannot be mistaken for a carelessly engraved *tya*. Banerji’s conclusion based upon a microscopic examination of the coins that the last three letters are *vinīta* is borne out by a scrutiny of the facsimiles in the *I. M. Catalogue*² also.