The Age of the Imperial Guptas c10.21.4

c10.21.4

behind her on *l.* are traces of back of a throne on most specimens; border of dots. Symbol on *l.*” The reverse legend is simply *Licchavayaḥ*.¹ The memorial medals issued in the name of Kāca are extremely rare, being rarer than the Aśvamedha type. The obverse shows the name Kāca in a vertical line and the type resemble the Standard and Archer types of Samudragupta. “Obverse: King standing to *l.* dressed as in preceding types, holding standard surmounted by wheel (*cakra*) in *l.* hand, and sprinkling incense on altar with *r.* hand.” The name of Kāca is written under the left hand exactly in the same fashion as the name of Samudragupta on his regular coins and there is a long circular legend: *gāmavajitya divaṁ karmabhir=uttamair-jayati*. On the reverse we see the figure of a standing goddess standing to the left, wearing a loose robe, holding a flower and cornucopiæ in left arm. The reverse legend is *Sarva-rāj=occhettā* to the right of the figure.² Allan thinks that “The similarity of the obverse legend to that of the Archer type forms one of the strongest proofs of the identity of Kāca with Samudragupta. The ‘highest works’ are sacrifices, and may be referred to the Aśvamedha sacrifice with more probability than the *Sucaritair* of the Archer type . . . . . . . . . The reverse legend *Sarva-raj=occhettā*, ‘exterminator of all the rājās,’ is regularly applied to Samudragupta, and to him alone, in the inscriptions of his successors;