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Silver. ‘Weight 29-0 grains. B. M., J. A.S. B. vii. pl. xxxii. figs. 
2, 3, 4, 8. 
Obv.—A female figure, holding on high a large flower,* and appar- 
ently in attendance on a fanciful representation of a sacred deer.+ The 
animal has curiously curved horns, and a bushy tail like a Himalayan 
Yak. Monogram 4.4 
Legend, in Indian-Pali [a similar flower to that in the field is re- 
peated at the commencement of the legend] :— 
Rédjnah Kranandasa Amogha-bhratasa Mahdrajasa. (Coin) of the 
great King, the King Krananda, the brother of Amogha. 
Rev.—A Chaitya surmounted by a small umbrella, above which ap- 
pears a curious symbol§—a serpent is seen at the foot of the Chaitya. 












* This is probably intended to represent a lotus, a favourite object of rever- 
ence with the Buddhists, One of the Nandas was named Mahé Padma, “ great 
Lotus,” (Vishnu Purana, 467. The Padma-chenpo of Tibetan writers. J. A. S. B. 
i 2.) “'The distinctive mark” of one of the four principal classes of Bud- 
dhists (the Réhula) was also “ an utpala-padma (water-lily) jewel, and tree-leaf, 
put together in the form of a nosegay.” I may as well take the opportunity of 
noting that the symbols of the remaining three classes of Buddhists were the 
© shell, or conch” for the Kdshyapa: a “ sorisika flower” for the Updéli : and “ the 
figure of a wheel” for the Kdtdyana. (Csoma Kérdsi, “Jour. As. Soc, Bengal,” 
vii, (1838), pp. 143—4,) 
+ The deer was typical of the Pratyeka Buddhas. Deer were the authorised 
devices for the signets of the priests (‘‘ Jour. A, 8. Bengal,’ 1835, p. 625, As. 
Res. xx. 86), and deer were from the first cherished and sacred animals among 
the Buddhists—‘‘ The Deer Park of the Immortal,” at Sarnath, near Benares, 
was an important feature in connection with the celebrated Stipa and religious 
establishments at that place. (“Foe Koue Ki,’ chapter xxxiv. ‘ Mémoires,” 
Hiouen-Thsang, i. p. 354.) 
t{ Iam unable to offer any solution of the meaning of this sign. It may 
possibly be an older form of the Tree. 
§ Chaityas, or more properly Stipas (Sanskrit “ a pile of earth’), are also call- 
ed Ddgobas in the Mahawanso, a, name stated to be derived from Dhdtw and 
gabbhan, “ Womb ofa relic.” (Mah, p. 5.; see also Prinsep’s ‘ Essays,” i. 
165.) The monogram which surmounts the Stipa on the coins eventually came 
to be recognised as a symbol of Dharma; its outline has much in common with 
the representations of the idol at Jagganath. (Stevenson, J. R. A, S. viii. 331. 
Cunningham, “ Bhilsa Topes,” pl. xxxii.) The device in question recurs fre- 
quently on the later Bactrian and Indo-Scythic coins. (Num. Chron, xix, pl. 
p. 12, No. 166, “Ariana Antiqua,” pl, xxii, 156. Burnout, ii, 627), 
