The Age of the Imperial Guptas c10.1

c10.1

Allan’s Catalogue of the coins of the Gupta dynasties in the British Museum has thrown much new light on the subject of the coinage of the Gupta empire, so that certain minor problems only remain to be solved, which must await fresh discovery. Earlier writers on the subject, especially the late Dr. V. A. Smith, paved the way for the preparation of Allan’s great work, but they were obsessed with numismatic theories, which proved a bar to the solution of the many intricate problems which presented themselves in the last century; such as, a second capital of the Gupta empire in the United Provinces, etc.