The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c6.39

c6.39

The *āditya*-ending epithet of Bhānugupta is not known, and so it is difficult to state whether he was identical with Bālāditya, who is known to have succeeded in ousting the Hūṇas in *c.* 530 A. D. Most probably Bālāditya was the son and successor of Bhānugupta and completed the work started by his father. The personal name of this Bālāditya is not known; if it was Narasiṃhagupta, as in the case of the Bālāditya who was the son and successsor of Purugupta, it is not unlikely that some of the gold coins bearing the name Nara on the obverse and the *biruda* Bālāditya on the reverse, may have been issued by Bālāditya II, the overthrower of the Hūṇas.