The Age of the Imperial Guptas c10.103

c10.103

A third freak type, the peacock type, is remarkable as being the most beautiful ever issued by a Gupta Mint master. Kumāra being one of the names of the divine general, Kārttikeya, the emperor Kumāragupta I identified himself with that divinity and issued coins with his own figure on the obverse and that of the god on the reverse:—