The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.10

c7.10

Symbols of Sūrya on coins:—on punch-marked coins and on some coins of Eran, 137-38;—on some copper coins of Kāḍa, 138;—on the money of Sūryamitra and Bhānumitra in the Pañcāla Mitra series, 139. Sūrya in human form: As Helios, Mihira, etc. on the coins of some early foreign rulers of India, the prototypes of some variety of the Indian Sūrya images, —Helios-Mithra on some coins of Plato, 139-40; Sun god on a coin of Philoxenus, 140; Helios-Mihira on the coins of Kanishka and Huvishka, 140.