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Horseman Type Dinar - Bhanugupta Prakashaditya
| Issuer | Later Gupta dynasty (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 510-525 |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Jayati nripati Prakashaditya |
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| Reverse lettering | Sri Prakashaditya |
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Bhanugupta is known primarily from a single stone inscription dated to 510–511 CE found at Eran in Madhya Pradesh, which records a battle — likely against the Huna invaders — and the self-immolation of a chieftain's wife, making it one of the earliest epigraphic references to the practice of sati. Whether the Horseman-type dinar was struck in direct connection with that campaign is unresolved, but the chronological overlap is tight enough that the coins almost certainly circulated in the shadow of Huna pressure on the northern plains.
The Later Guptas used the Prakashaditya epithet across multiple rulers, which has complicated attribution for over a century of scholarship.