Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics (Carmichael Lectures, 1921) c6.41

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¹ JBBRAS., XVI, 208. ² T. A. Gopinatha Rao’s *Elements of Hindu Iconography*, Vol. I., pt. I, p. 6. ³ There is a sculpture originally found at Bhiṭā but now lying in the Lucknow Museum. Dr. Führer, who discovered it, apparently took it to be the capital of a column. Mr. R. D. Banerji, however, says that Dr. Führer did not pay much attention to the inscription on it, from a careful study of which it appears that the sculpture represents a Liṅga and that the date of the Liṅga on palaeographic evidence is the first century B. C. (ASI.-AR., 1909-10, 147-8). Now, in the first place,