84 W. Theobald— Early Local Silver Coinages in N.-W. India. [No. 2, 
what I may describe by the term ‘ heraldic metamorphism ’ into not 
only the ‘ tr^ul ’ as Mr. Sewell contends, bnt into the ‘ triratna ’ also. 
The central globe represents the body of the 4 scarab ’ ; the legs are 
indicated by ‘ taurines,’ the lower or posterior pair being represented 
as opposed to each other, as they are so frequently seen to be, when 
the animal is engaged in the domestic operation of ‘ pill-rolling.’ 
The lateral legs are represented by a pair of ‘ taurines ’ directed for¬ 
wards. The anterior crescent in the middle represents the head of 
the ‘ scarab,’ whilst the pair of crescents on either side represent the 
strongly curved anterior legs of the insect. The symbol in this form, 
built up as it is of the meagre materials of ‘ bull ’ and ‘ crescent,’ can 
of course, only be viewed as the prototype of the perfected 4 triratna,’ 
but the germ of that symbol is there, and later developments have 
merely arisen by the process of addition of a floreated ornamentation 
having for its aim a higher artistic conception and effect. 
