217 
1890.] punch-marhed coins of Hindustan, ^e. 
man’s Troy, p. 313, fig. 227). A variant of the same design is seen 
carried in the hands of the principal figures in the bas-relief at Bogliar- 
keni, representing scenes in Hittite history. Fig, 258. (See Nature for 
March 1888, p. 513), and another variant is found on a Sculptured Stone 
in Scotland at Elgin. Fig. 276. 
34. Human figures. Fig. 1. 
The human figure is perhaps most usually represented by a group 
consisting of a man on the right and two women on the left. The male 
figure has two fillets projecting behind his head, which probably indicate 
royal rank. The women sometimes clasp each other’s hands, or else stand 
a little apart, and their hair is represented as fastened up behind the head 
into a projecting knot or ‘ bun,’ the same mode of wearing the hair 
being also seen on the Kunanda coins. 
35. An Elephant to the eight. Fig. 10. 
The elephant is an extremely common object on these coins and 
is usually turned to the right. There is very little variation in the 
treatment of the device, though Thomas figures an example with a 
number of ‘ Taurines ’ round it by way of border. 
36. A HAND IN A SQUARE, DISPLAYING FOUR FINGERS. Fig. 7. 
This is not a very uncommon symbol, but what it refers to is not 
very evident. Every one familiar with India must remember the two 
little foot marks, carved in stone or marked with rod paint, on the spot 
where some devoted wife bade earth adieu as she ascended the pyre, 
which was soon to consume her husband’s body and her own. Can it 
be, that this is the hand of a ‘sati ’ in the act of distributing the last 
gifts to her relatives ere she mounted the fatal pyre F In some cases 
all the five fingers are displayed (as in Thomas’ plate J. A. S. B., 1865, 
PI. XI), but the surrounding square is there wanting. 
37. A Rhinoceros. Fig. 13. 
The rhinoceros is rare on these coins, and in both the figures given 
by Thomas (J. A. S. B., 1865, PI. XI), the horn, though undoubtedly be- 
longing to this animal, yet makes an unnatural curve forwards. The 
species intended is probably S. Sondaicus, the lesser one-horned rhino- 
ceros, which at the date of these coins was probably found over the 
entire peninsula, and so late as Baber’s time was hunted and killed by 
arrows and spears, in the Punjab, whore it has long since been extermi- 
nated. On one copper coin in my own possession, the forepart of an 
animal is represented, which undoubtedly is intended for a rhinoceros. 
