The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c7.s1.22

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The reverse of the gold coins of Kumāragupta I shows a goddess, except in the case of the Kārttikeya type, where we see that deity at that place, and in the Aśvamedha type, where we find the crowned queen standing with a chourī, ready to attend on the horse. The goddess is usually seated on lotus,¹ but she is sometimes to be seen seated on a wicker stool, and in some cases engaged in feeding a peacock, as on the Horseman, the Tiger-slayer and the Elephant-rider-Lion-slayer types. The Lion-slayer type follows the old tradition and represents the goddess on the reverse as seated on lion. On the Elephant-rider type the goddess is standing to front.