The Age of the Imperial Guptas c6.74

c6.74

Two of them belong to the reign of a king named Dharmāditya, the third to that of Gopacandra and the fourth to that of Samācāra. Out of these three kings Samācāra is also known from a solitary gold coin identified correctly for the first time by Mr. N. K. Bhāttasali of the Dacca Museum¹ Dharmāditya may be the *Āditya* name of one of the later Gupta Kings but we cannot be too sure of this because in the Damodarpur plates all Gupta Emperors are mentioned by their proper names, which are not even followed by their *Āditya*-names. Hoernle’s proposed identification of Dharmāditya with Yaśodharman need not be considered seriously like his theory of the latter being known as Vikramāditya since the publication of the Sanjan plates of Amoghavarṣa I which indicate distinctly that *Vikramāditya* belonged to the Gupta family.² All that can be said about these plates is that they belong to the period between 550 and 650 A.D.