[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) › c19.88 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.88 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.88 - **Language:** English ### [c19.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.88) The first three letters on the right hand side are \*pravaraḥ\*. Hoernle had taken the word as \*pravīraḥ\*; there is a mark above \*va\*, looking like that of short medial \*i\*, but not like that of long medial \*ī\*. There is no such word as \*pravīraḥ\* in Sanskrit, and the reading \*pravīraḥ\* will go against the metre, as we shall soon see. The new photograph shows that Hoernle’s reading of the last two letters as \*gupta\* is untenable; the first letter is clearly a \*ksha\*, the subscript \*sha\* being distinct, and the last letter is a \*ta\* and not \*pta\*. - [Previous: c19.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.87) - [Next: c19.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.89) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.88) · Pramāṇa