The Age of the Imperial Guptas c10.47

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c10.47

There are two classes in this type in which the obverse legend differ. In the first class the obverse legend is *Mahārājādhirāja-Śrī-Candra-guptaḥ* but in the second it is *Kṣitimavajitya Sucaritair-divam jayati Vikramāditya*. The reverse legend in both classes of this type gives the complete *biruda* or *Aditya*-name of this king. The Standard type seems to have been copied from the Battle-axe type of Samudragupta in which a boy or dwarf appears to the left of the king.¹ The Lion-slayer type of Candragupta II was a freak but widely issued type:—

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