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[No. 2, 
W. Theobald— On certain symbols or devices on 
generally applied to a male deity, whom tlie crescent moon behind his 
shoulders proves to be the masculine moon, the .Deus Tuna, or Soma of 
the Hindus. But on those coins whereon the £ cornu-copise ’ is borne by 
Mao, the deity is feminine and without the crescent moon behind her 
shoulder, or iii other words the title Mao is occasionally bestowed on the 
deity usually named Ardochro.* 
In every single instance that has come under my observation, the 
‘ cornu-copise’ on the Indo-Scythian coins in gold or copper of Ooerki, 
Kanerki, or Bazdeo, though various in design, never present the peculiar 
type which it assumes on the Gupta coins, neither is the peculiar type 
of the Gupta cornu-copise ever represented that I am aware of on either 
the gold or copper coins of the ordinary Indo-Scythian mintage, though 
seen in some coins of a different type classed by Wilson with the Guptas : 
A. A. PI. XVIII, fig. 25 and by Mr. Smith as Indo-Scythian, one being 
figured on his Plate IV, fig. 6. Prof. Wilson (A. A. p. 427) describes 
these as “ rude coins ” and so perhaps many of them are ; but two in my 
possession attributable to £ Bri Shaka ’ and ‘ Sita,’ are as well designed and 
as clearly cut and stamped as the bulk of the Gupta coins, though display¬ 
ing a stiff and formal mannerism quite distinct from either the Gupta 
coins on the one hand, or the Indo-Scythian on the other. 
On the copper coins the £ cornu-copise ’ is either entire, or bifid at the 
top. In all the specimens I have seen of the £ cornu-copise ’ borne by 
Mao, it is distinctly, and sometimes deeply bifid, whilst the same symbol 
on the copper coins whereon Ardochro is figured, is entire at the top. 
This, however, is not a distinctive character, as on the gold coins 
Ardochro is represented bearing both types of the symbol. In A. A. PI. 
XII, fig. 5 and PI. XIV, figs. 4 .and 5, the undivided type of cornu-copise 
is figured and this is certainly the commonest form, but a gold coin of 
Ooerki figured by Thomas (Jainism, PI. 11, fig. 16) the cornu-copise is 
distinctly bifid, though not to the same extent as is seen on the copper 
coins with more on the reverse, and I have a very similar gold coin with 
the £ cornu-copiae ’ distinctly though not deeply bifid. It is not from the 
same die as that figured by Thomas, as the £ nimbus ' is complete, where¬ 
as on the figured coin it is only represented on front of the king’s face. 
The £ cornu-copiae ’ (as it is called) on the Gupta coinage differs 
considerably from either type of the symbol on the Indo-Scythian coins, 
and this difference is too constant and circumstantial to be the result 
* On another of these copper coins of Ooerki, Mao is also represented as a male 
figure with nimbus, and no crescent behind the shoulders, but with the emblem of 
Vulcan ; in his right hand a hammer, with a small handle (like the bamboo handle 
of an Indian smith's hammer) and in his left, resting against his shoulder, a pair of 
pincers precisely like those now used in an Indian bazaar by an iron-smith. 
