The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.8

c8.8

The name of the king is written perpendicularly partly under his left arm and partly outside the staff of the standard held in that hand. It is spelt sometimes as *Chandra* (Pl. I. 13), but usually as *Chandra* (Pl. I. 8-12). The name of the queen Kumāradevī is written behind her standing figure. It is usually prefixed by the honorific term *śrī*, but in rare cases it comes at the end of the name (Pl. I. 11). The post-position of *śrī* is rather rare; we have, however, got another instance of it on some coins of the Western Kshatrapa ruler Dāmajada, where the legend is *Damajadaśriyaḥ*.² The reverse shows a goddess seated on lion. The feet of the goddess are usually hanging down (Pl. I. 8-10), but in rare cases she is seen tucking up one of them (Pl. I. 11). She is never shown astride the lion, nor is the latter ever shown as walking, as we see on the Lion-slayer coins of Chandragupta II. The reverse legend gives the name of the Lichchhavi clan as *Lichchhavayaḥ*.³