Image: India, Chandragupta II, Gupta Period - Coin with Figure of an Archer - 1977.62 - Cleveland Museum of Art

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Description: The rulers of the Gupta dynasty unified northern India under native rule for the first time since the Maurya empire (323-185 bc). The Guptas named themselves after Chandragupta, the founder of the Maurya dynasty. This coin of Chandragupta II, who ruled from around ad 380 to 415, depicts a divine archer holding a bow and arrow. On the reverse is the Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri, seated on a lotus.
Title: Coin with Figure of an Archer (obverse), and with Figure of the Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri, seated on a lotus (reverse)
Credit: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.62
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