The Development of Hindu Iconography c11.7

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¹ J. Allan, op. cit., pp. 210-12, 252, 270-71, 279-80, 283, etc., and corresponding plates. The figure of the goddess on the Mathura coins was sometimes wrongly identified as that of Kṛṣṇa, Cambridge History of India, Vol. I, p 526. For a detailed study of the early iconography of Śrī-Lakṣmī on the basis of textual, monumental and numismatic data, refer to A. K. Coomaraswamy's article on ‘Early Indian Iconography’, in Eastern Art, Vol. I, pp. 175ff. The coins which are noticed above can collectively be dated from the 2nd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Some of these figures, however, may also stand for Durgā-Gaurī, as will be shown later on.