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=== Coinage === | === Coinage === | ||
A few copper coins, bearing the legend "Ramaguta" (Prakrit form of "Ramagupta") on the obverse, and the figure of a lion or a [[garuda]] on the reverse, have been found at [[Eran]] and [[Vidisha]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]]. Some scholars have attributed these coins to the Gupta ruler Ramagupta, but others believe him to be a distinct, local ruler.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|pp=226-227}} Since Garuda was the emblem of the imperial Gupta dynasty, numismatist K. D. Bajpai asserted that these coins were indeed issued by the Gupta emperor Ramagupta. Bajpai | A few copper coins, bearing the legend "Ramaguta" (Prakrit form of "Ramagupta") on the obverse, and the figure of a lion or a [[garuda]] on the reverse, have been found at [[Eran]] and [[Vidisha]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]]. Some scholars have attributed these coins to the Gupta ruler Ramagupta, but others believe him to be a distinct, local ruler.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|pp=226-227}} Since Garuda was the emblem of the imperial Gupta dynasty, numismatist K. D. Bajpai asserted that these coins were indeed issued by the Gupta emperor Ramagupta. Bajpai speculated that Samudragupta appointed his son Ramagupta as a governor of the eastern [[Malwa]] region in central India; Ramagupta was forced to stay there even after his father's death because of the war with the Shakas, and the events depicted in ''Devichandraguptam'' happened there.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=227}} | ||
However, historian D. C. Sircar doesn't find Bajpai's theory convincing, and states that the issuer of these coins may have been a local chief of imitated Gupta coinage after the decline of the Gupta dynast in the late 5th century CE.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=227}} Sircar points out that a non-Gupta ruler named Harigupta is known to have issued copper coins that feature a garuda, and imitate the gold coins of Chandragupta II.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=228}} Coins of another such imitator, named Indragupta, have been discovered at [[Kumhrar]].{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=228}} Sircar also notes that other Gupta emperors are known to have issued gold coins, but no gold coins issued by Ramagupta have been discovered.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=223}} | However, historian D. C. Sircar doesn't find Bajpai's theory convincing, and states that the issuer of these coins may have been a local chief of imitated Gupta coinage after the decline of the Gupta dynast in the late 5th century CE.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=227}} Sircar points out that a non-Gupta ruler named Harigupta is known to have issued copper coins that feature a garuda, and imitate the gold coins of Chandragupta II.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=228}} Coins of another such imitator, named Indragupta, have been discovered at [[Kumhrar]].{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=228}} Sircar also notes that other Gupta emperors are known to have issued gold coins, but no gold coins issued by Ramagupta have been discovered.{{sfn|D.C. Sircar|2008|p=223}} | ||