1890.] 
punch-marked coins of Hindustan, ^-a. 
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243. A Buddhist symbol. Fig. 215. 
Figured by Thomas and common on later issues, but not noticed by 
me on punch-marked coins, and unfortunately Thomas gives no references 
to the coins whence his devices were copied. 
244. Two SEMtCIECLES JOINED. Fig. 218. 
Thomas figured this symbol which has all the appearance of being 
the upper'portion only of No. 25, fig. 51, with fig. 127 added. 
245. Tree with railings supporting two ‘ Taurines’ Fig. 222. 
246. Jackal looking up at a tree, protected by a railing. Fig. 223. 
This symbol is well executed and looks as if designed to perpetuate 
the fable of the ‘ fox and grapes.’ 
247. Four circles each with a central dot. Fig. 224. 
These circles are ranged in a lozenge, obliquely, and not in a square, 
and reappear on the coins of Ceylon and South India. 
248. Symbol op Baalpeor or ‘ Mahadev ’ within a cross. Fig. 225. 
In this symbol, of purely Shivite character, we can trace the proto- 
type of the design of the Rosy Cross round which in medimval times so 
many curious ideas were abroad. The cross, in the old form of a T, is a 
well-known nature-worship symbol, and under the name of Thor’s 
hammer was reverenced, long prior to the introduction of Christianity, 
among our fierce Scandinavian ancestors. But nature-worship is 
dualistic, the female element being represented concurrently therein. 
The ‘ lotus ’ is one of the numerous feminine symbols, and in Europe a 
‘ rose ’ would not unnatui’ally replace the exotic ‘ lotus,’ so that the 
‘ Rose ’ of the Bosicrucian sect is the female analogue of the Shivite 
‘ lotus ’ which conjoined with the T forms the dualistic or androgynous 
symbol of the Rosy Cross. 
249. Three spheres in a narrow oval area. Fig. 226. 
Occurs on one coin in the British Museum. 
250. A VARIANT OF No. 4. Fig. 231. 
On a coin in the British Museum is a variant of No. 4, fig, 129. In 
this the circles are replaced by two well designed hexagons within a 
narrow oval area, contracted in the middle. 
