In course of time the Swann' with the device of a boar came to be known by the name of the device itself just as the Sovereign; and Gala' in England came to be so known hien tht formerebeidgg for the filet time the portrait of the Sovereign in the reign of Henry VI tipd the latter froth the coin having been minted from gold lirought from Guinea by the ' Company of Royal Advenerers ' of England' [...] It may be rioted that the figures and devices on the Nayak coinage comprise the whole of the Hindu Pant163on thus bearing the impress of the later Hinduism that was the prevailing religion of the times. [...] No review of the coinage of Solidi 'Julia will lie complete witiout.tho history of the coinage cif the various European trading companies that came ipto India in the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the trenteenth centuries nor of that of the NawaLbs of the Climatic. [...] We sham an insight too into the religion of the country and thb change that WW1 introduced into the religious beliefs of the people from the time when Buddhism wag the prevalent faith in the Peninsula till the revival of the old religion of the Vedes aSd the various subdivisions that were engrafted on the Vedic religion; though so far as chronology is concelped it must be admitted that South I [...] ' The first peculiarity that strikes one as distinguishing the Jaina archtecture of the south.from that of the north is the divisicalsof the southern temples into twe classes called bastis and bettas The former are temples in the usual acceptance of the word RS understood in the north and as there always containing an image of 0110 of the twenty-four Tirthaukaras which is the object the
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