Indian Antiquary Vol 33

SR No.: 032525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 514
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1901.
temples and worship their images at night. The places both her hands before her near her thighs Digambaras, particularly the Terapanthis, do not and with the palm inwards; (v) Yaksha and worship at night, although they light lamps in Yakshini (24) both hold up their left hand open, their temples for the purpose of reading their with its fingers hanging down and the palm scriptures there.
inwards. As to the sixth distinction, it is not the Digam
6. baras, especially Teråpanthis, who bathe their
Similarly, with regard to the feet of the images with panchdmrita. It is the Svētämbaras Yakshas and Yakshints, the general remark in who do so, or else the Bhattarakas, reference to the article is nt variance with the figures on the whom has already been made above.
plates. A complete classification would be as 5.
follows: (i) Yaksha and Yakshini (1) have their As to the Yakshas and Yakshinis, general left foot down and right tucked up in front; references to them in the body of the article, (ii) Yaksha (2) has his left foot down and right p. 463. 11. 29-32, are not in keeping with the tucked up in front, and Yaksin (2) has her right plates given at the end of the article. Both foot down and left in front; (iii) Yakshas and Yakshas and Yakshinis do not, in all cases, hold Yakshinis (from Nos. 3 to 12) all have their left their right hand up with palm foremost in front foot down and right tucked up in front: (iv) Both of the chest, and the left hand closed. As a mat
Yakshas and Yakshinis (Nos. 13 to 22) hold their ter of fact, (i) Trimukha Yaksha (3) has his left right foot down and the left tucked up in front : hand closed but with a tendency to show the palm
(v) Yaksha (23) has his right foot down and left outwards; (ii) Isvara and Gauri (11) both hold
in front; Yakshini (23) has her left foot down, up the left hand with their open palm outwards and right in front; (vi) Yaksha and Yakshini and the fingers hanging down; (iii) Kumara (12) (24) both sit as above. Yaksha holds the left hand as above-his
JAGXANDER LAL JAINI, Yakshini has it closed; (iv) Yakshini Kushman
Tutor, M. C. College, Allahabad. pini (22) has two children in her two arms and April, 1904.
MISCELLANEA. FURTHER NOTES ON SOME DOUBTFUL No. 55 belongs to a South Indian Bull-andCOPPER COINS OF SOUTHERN INDIA. trisula series of which I have several. Sir
Walter Elliot has figured one (Plato IV., 174) SINCE the publication of my paper on Doubt.
and described it (p. 134) in his "Coins of Southern ful Copper Coins in Southern India in ante,
India," but he was unable to place it with any Vol. XXXII. p. 313 ff., I have been able to
accuracy. identify a few of the coins there figured, and
I overlooked this point when preI now submit the following notes.
paring my List. No. 17 E. - I am inclined to think that this
I take this opportunity of submitting for
identification by experts, another coin from is a Pandyan coin, and that the symbol at the
South India that has long been a puzzle to me. top of the rev. is not a lingam and altar as I supposed. Above the back of the Nandi is a battle-axe.
The symbol above the axe seems to be separated by dotted lines from the axe and the bull. It may represent a mountain. One of my "Koneri Râyan" series, which seems to be | It was omitted from my List accidentally, being, certainly Pandyan, has a figure of a standing at the time my paper was prepared, in custody of bull with a battle-axe above.
Mr. Rapson of the British Museum, who, however, Nos. 43, A to D, are coins of the Dutch, and
was unable to class it. The horse is somewhat
similar to that on No. 56 of my 4 Doubtful" the legend on the reverse is Puduchchéri (Pondicherry). Count Maurin Nahuys has described
List, which may be a coin of Maisur. But the them (pp. 13, 14) and figured them (Plates 6, 7, 8)
Tamil letter na on the reverse seems to shew in his paper on the "Numismatique des Indes
that the present coin has no connection with Néerlandaises," published in the "Revue Belge
that principality. de Numismatique," 1887.
R. SEWELL. # Numerals enclosed in brackets denote the serial number of the figures in the plates.