1G2 W. TlieobaUl —Note on Some of the Symbols [No. 3, 
carefully executed silver coins present minor variations, wliicli do not, 
however, impair the marked uniformity of type pervading them all. 
Professor Wilson thus describes the silver coin figured by him in 
‘ Ariana Antiqua,’ PI. XV, f. 23. “ Round. Stag, to the right with female 
figure in front ; above the back of the animal a symbol, Mon. No. 164c^, 
and between its horns another (?) No. 164& Nev. 
A chaitya surmounted by an umbrella, and Mon. No. 156 ; on its right 
a square Mon. No. 165 surmounted by a triple tree; on its left two sym¬ 
bols, No. 166 and the sign familiar to the Hindus by the name of Swas¬ 
tika. See No. 158" 1. c. p. 415. 
On the preceding page. Professor Wilson remarks: “ The principal 
object is a female figure, in front of a stag, the meaning of which does 
not derive much light from the passage quoted by Mr. Csoma from the 
Dul-va that ‘ a man of the religious order may have on his seal or stamp 
a circle with two deer on the opposite sides, and below, the name of the 
founder of the Vihara or monastery.” Wilson’s coin I will designate 
as a. 
Mr. E. Thomas (1. c.) thus describes his coin, which may be called b. 
“ The central figure represents the conventional form of the sacred 
deer of the Buddhist. (1) The horns are fancifully curved, and the tail 
is imitated from that of the Himalayan yah ; an appendage, which, in its 
material use and pictorial embodiment, was so early accepted as a dis¬ 
tinctive type of royalty. In attendance on this symbolic animal is a 
lightly draped female (2) who holds aloft a lotus (3). The mono¬ 
gram o (4) complete the emblems on the field, but the lotus is repeated 
at the commencement of the legend.” 
The emblems on the reverse are thus described ; (p. 476) “ The 
central device consists of a stupa (5) surmounted by a small chhatra (6)^ 
above which appears a favourite Buddhist symbol (7). At the foot is a 
serpent (8). In the field are the Bodhi tree (9), the Swastika cross (10), 
and an emblem peculiar to the Buddhists (11).” 
The coin itself is figured on p. 457. In a note on p. 475, Mr. 
Thomas adds, “ On some coins* the lotus is inserted in the field below 
the body of the stag. On other specimens the letter A = P (Vihara ?') 
occupies the vacant space.” The third coin, c, figured by Babu Rajen- 
dralala Mitra (J. A. S. B. 1875, Part I, p. 89) does not materially 
differ as regards the emblems engraved on it, from specimen b, and need 
not therefore be more particularly described here. The fourth specimen 
in silver, d, is a coin in my own possession, which differs in the animal 
on the obverse, standing in full side profile, so as to display one horn 
only ; in the female holding some obscure object, which it is hardly pos- 
* J. A. S. B. PI. XXXII. f. 4.—W. T. 
