Jainism Early Faith of Ashoka

Author(s): Edward Thomas
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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THE EARLY FAITH OF AŞOKA.
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Legend, legible. PAO NANO PAO Onpki Kopavo. Reverse. Şiva, three-faced, four-armed, to the front, holding the
trident, a club, a western form of the thunderbolt and a gourd,
water-vessel ? Legend. OKPA, Zend uğra, yo Ugra, the “fierce," " terrible." No. 15. (Obverse. King's bust as in No. 8.) Reverse. Roman figure, as in the plate, holding a brazier with
ascending flames. Legend. PAPPO, Pharos. There are several varieties of this type: in one instance the figure holds a simpulum, such as is seen on the coins of Antonia Augusta,
A.D. 37.–Trésor de Numismatique, pl. x. fig. 14. No. 16. Obverse. King's bust as in the Plate. Ornamental jacket,
armlets, mace and spear; with a curious peaked helmet having buffalo horns diverging upwards from below the frontlet, as is seen in certain Indo-Sassanian coins of a later age;' flowing fillets at the back, with Sassanian fillets distributed over each
shoulder. Reverse. A Roman type of abundance. Legend. APAOXPO. The
cornucopiæ and the style of dress belong to the period of Julius Cæsar and the early days of Augustus, A.U.C. 711, 33 B.0.
Trésor de Numismatique, pl. iii. fig. 1. No. 17. (Obverse. Kadphises type of King's bust, with mace and
ankus, Sassanian fillets.) Reverse. Four-armed figure, as in the Plate. Legend. MANAO
BAGO, the Moon-god. No. 18. (Obverse. Kadphises bust; silken garment, mace, ankus,
etc., flame on right shoulder, ordinary fillets.) Reverse. Male figure, as in the Plate. Legend. Mao, Mao, the
Moon. No. 19. (Obverse. King's bust as in A.A. xiv. 3; highly ornamental
robe and collar, Sassanian fillets, etc.) Reverse. Figure as in the Plate, with sword and staff, holding out
a chaplet. Legend. MAO, the Moon. No. 20, (Obverse. King's bust, with Roman pallium, peaked cap,
and Sassanian fillets.) Reverse. Female figure with Caduceus, as in the Plate. Legend. NANO, Nanaia.
* See Prinsep, Essays, vol. ii. p. 115; Ariana Antiqua, pl. xvii. 5, etc.; Herodotus, vii. c. lxxyi.