The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.8

c7.8

Aniconism of a large section of the Indians suggested by the earliest coins of the country, 108-110. Iconism on ancient Indian coins: Gaja-Lakṣmī on coins, 110-12; Buddha on Indian coins, 112; Śiva in his theriomorphic form, 112-13; Śiva in his phallic form on the indigenous coins of India, 113-14; other emblems of Śiva on the indigenous and foreign coins of India, 114-17. Śiva in human form: on Ujjayinī coins, 117;—on those of the Audumbara chief Dharaghoṣa, 117-18;—on Kuniṇḍa coins, 118;—on some coins of Gondophares, 118-19;—on some square copper coins of Maues, as well as on a seal of Śivarakṣita, 120-21; probable appearance of Śiva on the Sirkap seal of Viśvāmitra, 121. Iconography of Śiva on Kuṣāṇ money: on Wema Kadphises's coins, 121-22;—on the coins of Kaniṣka and Huviṣka, 122-23; composite (? Haryardha) form of Śiva on a coin of Huviṣka, 123-24; composite form of Mihira, Śiva and Viṣṇu on the nicolo seal of a Hephtalite Huṇa chief, 124-25; Śiva as ‘Gaṇeśa’ on a copper coin of Huviṣka, 125; Śiva's consort Umā on Huviṣka's coins, 126-27; Śiva on Vāsudeva's coins, 127-28; probable reference to a Śaiva shrine in an early Kharoṣṭhī inscription, 128-29. Vāsudeva-Viṣṇu on a coin of the Pañcāla Mitra chief Viṣṇumitra, 129-30; Viṣṇu on a coin of Huviṣka—doubtful, 130-31. Some Vaiṣṇava emblems on early indigenous coins: Fan-palm capitals on some Taxila and other coins, 131; Sudarśanacakra on the coins of the Vṛṣṇi Rājanya gaṇa, 131;—on the coins of Virayaśas, the Kauluta chief, and on those of Acyuta, 132.