[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) › c19.178 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.178 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.178 - **Language:** English ### [c19.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.178) As the book was in type for more than eight years and in the press for more than four years, some discrepancies have crept in about the time and position of Kācha and Rāmagupta. The statement on p. 4 that the whole position about Kācha and Rāmagupta is very obscure is still true and we are not yet in a position to arrive at a definite conclusion. The second sentence on p. 3 is suffering from a serious omission of the opening words, ‘Some hold that’; its correct form is ‘Some hold that a king named Kācha flourished at about this time and may have been the cause of this war.’ And now there is no contradiction between it and the statement on p. 87, 11. 16-7 that ‘We have tentatively assumed that Kācha was a Gupta king and came after Samudragupta.’ Of course there are difficulties in this position also, if we assume that Samudragupta was succeeded by Rāmagupta; for we shall have to place two kings between Samudragupta and Chandragupta II. Another possibility is that Kācha might have raised the standard of revolt when Samudragupta was far away in the Deccan. In that case we can explain the high artistic merit of his coin-type and there will be only one king between Samudragupta and Chandragupta II. The whole position about Kācha and Rāmagupta is too obscure to permit any definite conclusion. - [Previous: c19.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.177) - [Next: c19.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.179) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.178) · Pramāṇa