The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c18.s8.8

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The coinage of Jayanāga is a close copy of the well-known Archer type of the Gupta dynasty. The obverse shows the king usually standing to *l.* but sometimes facing also, and holding bow and arrow, while the reverse has Lakshmī seated on lotus receiving ablution from an elephant on *l.* The long legend on *r.* probably left no room to show an elephant on *r.* also, as is to be seen on the coins of Śaśāṅka. His *biruda*, however, does not end with *Āditya*; it is *Prakāṇḍayasāḥ*, ‘of wide fame.’ His coinage replaces Garuḍa standard by the Chakra standard, which had made its appearance on the coinage of Kācha (Pl. IV. 1) and on one variety of the Archer type of Chandragupta II (Pl. V. 2). *Chakradhvaja* is quite appropriate for a Vaishṇava.