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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1890

1891

The Greek coins present us with a portrait of the king with his name and titles in two languages together with a great number and variety of monograms indicating in many instances where they have been deciphered by the ingenuity and perseverance of General Cunningham and others the names of the mint cities where the coins wore struck and it is our ignorance of the geographical names of the per [...] The Yam ' or barley-corn' is not known to Hindu metrology but the unit of the system is the grafi' the bright red and black seed of the Abrus precatorius the whole of the Indian money whether of gold silver or copper being cetain multiples of this well-known unit. [...] It is usually seen on the coins either in combination with the last or as resting on the top of a ' stupa.' Except where the symbol accompanies a masculine deity as Soma the (leas Luna of the Hindus the crescent is always to be regarded as a feminine symbol and significant of the attributes of Ishtar the Celestial Mother or one of her numerous homologues in all religions admitting that idea wh [...] This follows as a matter of course from the different conception of the pesonality of the Assyrian and Indian triads or trinities ; in the former of which the three male personages thereof are supplemented by a fourth the female personation of Nature power or the Celestial Mother coequal with the other three whilst in the latter each person Brahma Siva and Vishnu is supplied with a female [...] Instead of the 'twin spheres' crossed by the 'sceptre' or irisul' of Mahadev there is a serpent crossed by this latter symbol and those who know how in India the serpent is identified with the lingum ' and associated with the cult of Afahadev will see the facility with which the serpent' may stand in place of the ' lingum ' and how when sharply flexed the folds of the body of the snake repres
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Pages
126
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Notes on some of the symbols found on the punch-marked coins of Hindustan. and on their relationship to the archaic symbolism of other races and distant lands.—by W. Theobald M. R. A. S.
181-268 The Honorary Philological Secretary view
Chhattisgar : Notes on its tribe. Sects and castes.—by P. N. Bose B. Sc.(Lond.)F. G. S. Deputy Superintendent Geological Survey of India
269-300 The Honorary Philological Secretary view
Index to Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. LIX Part I for 1890
301-302 The Honorary Philological Secretary view
Backmatter
i-iv The Honorary Philological Secretary view

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