Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.11

c26.11

§ 143. On one type of their coins (Śuṅga period) they stamp the figure of a moving elephant and that of a bull. And the coin is struck in the name of the Yaudheyas '*Yaudheyānām*,' 'Of the Yaudheyas.' On the second type they give the representation of the God Kārttikeya, the presiding deity of Heroism and War, and name him on the coin. In fact the coin itself is significantly dedicated to the Deity of Heroism. In other words, the figure is their *La Liberté*. The third type is purely constitutional. It is struck in the name of the Yaudheya-gaṇa or Yaudheya Parliament [or Republic] (*Yaudheya-Gaṇasya jaya*: 'Victory of the Yaudheya Gaṇa'). The figure on it is a warrior with a spear in the pose of a dignified '*tri-bhaṅga*'—representing the type of their citizen-soldier. Some coins bear "dvi" (two) and some "tri" (three).³ These probably refer to their three sections, like Patañjali's trika Śālaṅkāyanas.⁴