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10. Gokhale, B.G., Samudra Gupta: Life and Times, Bombay, 1962, p. 101.
11. Journal of Bengal Royal Society, XXXIV, pp. 19 ff.
12. Pathak, V. S., Ancient Historians of India, Bombay, 1966, p. 27.
13. Goyal, S.R., Prachina Bharatiya Abhilekha Samgraha, Vol. I, Jaipur, 1982, p. 324.
14. Fleet, op. cit., p. 62.
15. Ibid., p. 90.
16. Ibid., p. 16.
17. Sircar, D.C., in The Classical Age, Bombay, 1954, p. 179. Later on Sircar assigned it to the sixth century (Sel. Ins., Calcutta, 1965, p. 456).
18. Mirashi, V.V., Studies in Indology, II, pp. 167 ff.
19. For a detailed study of the features of Brahmi script on the Gupta coins, see Indian Numismatics Chronicle, II, i, pp. 49 ff.
20. Roy, U.N., Gupta Samrat aur Unka Kāla, Allahabad, 1971, p. 582 n. (translated by Shankar Goyal). 21. Goyal, S.R., Guptakalina Abhilekha, p. 118.
22. Gupta, P.L., The Imperial Guptas, Varanasi, 1974, p. 303.
23. For some suggestions on epigraphical studies vide Shastri, A.M., "Ancient Indian Epigraphy: Problems and Perspectives' in Methodology of Epigraphical Studies and History Writing, ed. S.R. Dubey, Delhi, 2004, pp. 12-18; Nigam, S.S., "Methodology of Epigraphic Study: Malwa Perspective', in Dubey, S.R., op. cit., pp. 19-27.
