[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957) › c19.142 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.142 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.142 - **Language:** English ### [c19.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.142) There are several silver coins of this ruler with defectively engraved legends, or with incomplete legends. They show readings like \*rajadhaśra-Kumara\*, \*jadharaśra-Kumara\*, \*rajadharaśra-Kumara\*, \*jadhaśra-Kumara\*, \*jaśra-Kumara\*, etc.¹ In the the last mentioned defective legend occurring on B. M. No. 384, \*śra\* is preceded by a superfluous \*ma\*; on the present coin also \*śra\* is seen preceded by a superfluous letter. It is true that this letter looks like a usual \*pa\*. But square-base forms of \*ma\* do occur on the silver coins of Kumāragupta I; see Pl. XVI. 8. at I. I therefore think that on our coin the legend here is \*śrama-Kugupta\*. - [Previous: c19.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.141) - [Next: c19.143](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.143) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.142) · Pramāṇa