220 W. Theobald — Notes on some of the symbols found on the [No. 3, 
This dualism was doubtless not unintentional and found imitators in the 
West, in the case of those astute and religious men the Popes of Rome, 
when they converted the statues of Olympian* deities into objects of 
Christian worship. 
“ Till Peter’s keys some christened Jove adorn. 
And I’an to Moses lends his pagan horn ; 
Bee graocloss Venus to a Virgin turned 
Or Phidias broken, and Apelles burned.” Dunoiad, Book III. 
40. A Nylghao (Portax pictus). Fig. 25. 
This is an animal which has short straight horns, and is not humped 
like the Indian Bull. It is probably intended for the nylghao, an 
animal considered by the Hindus as allied to the bull and equally 
sacred. It is not a common symbol on the coins and is unnoticed by 
Thomas. 
41. Hare in the moon. Fig. 21. 
This pretty conceit, though by no means rare, is not mentioned by 
Thomas. It refers of course to the relation in Hindu mythology be- 
tween the Moon and Hare, the mythical hare being undoubtedly the 
moon. Gnbernatis quotes one Buddhist legend in which the hare is 
described as having been tran.slated to the moon, as a reward for its 
having hospitably bestowed on Indra, in guise of a pilgrim, its own 
flesh to eat, no other food being available. {Zoological Mythology, 
Vol. II, page 79). 
42. Goat browsing on a vine. Fig. 20. 
This animal is not named by Thomas, but figured by him next to 
the rhinoceros, aud also as a leopard, in the last figure of line 6, but 
on a coin in my possession the animal is provided with two straight 
horns and two very conventional or round ears, and below it, is figured 
a kid with the same conventional round ears, but no horns. The up- 
right staff in fi-ont of it, with berries down each side (fig. 7G)t may re- 
pi-esent a vine, conventionally, in which case the goat is probably re- 
presented in the act of browsing on the vine as goats are fond of doing. 
The symbol in fact illustrates those lines in Ovid’s Fasti : 
* The tomb of Sannazariua, the poet, who died in 1530 was ornamented with 
statues of Apollo and Pallas with the Gorgon’s head : these figures were subsequent- 
ly altered in the prevailing fashion of the period, into figures of David and Judith ; 
the lyre of the former becoming a harp, whilst the head of Medusa was converted 
into that of Holofornos 1 
+ This branch or staff should have been represented in front of fig. 20, as it in- 
variably accompanies the goat. 
