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COINS OF NARASIMHA
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A.D. 473. He was succeeded by his son Kumāra Gupta II Kramāditya by queen Mitradevi.'
The coins of Narasimha and his successor belong to two varieties of the Archer type. One class of these coins was, according to Allan, apparently intended for circulation in the lower Ganges valley, and the other may have been issued in the upper provinces. The inclusion of Eastern India within the dominions of Bālāditya (Bālākchya) and Kumāra (II) is vouched for by the ĀryaManjusri-müla-kalpa.?
1 It is suggested in Ep. Ind., xxi, 77 (clay seals of Nālanda) and ASI, AR, 1934-35, 63, that the name of Kumāra Gupta's mother has to be read as Mitradevi and not Srimati devi or Lakshmidevi. 2 Ganapati Šāstri's ed. p. 630. Cf. Jayaswal, Imperial History, 35.
Bālākhya nāmasau nạipatir bhavita Purva-deśakah tasyāpareņa nripatih Gaudānām prabhavishnavah Kumārāk li yo nāmatah proktah so'pir atyanta dharmavan.
