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Indo-European traditions. "The Irish goddess Flaith or Flaith
Eremis is a good example".
20 A few references may be noted in connection with the
iconographical evidence of Sri-Lakami's relation with the lotus :-
6 The lotus-seat or the Padmapadapitha is found in the
21 Maurya-Sunga terracottas and at Sanchi and Sharhut.
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The more common representation of Laksmi on coins i
that in which she is seen either as standing or as
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seated on a lotus with a lotus in her hand. The
earliest depiction of this figure is found on some
uninscribed coins of Ujjayini, where she is seen
seated, facing, on a lotus.
Laksmi standing to front and holding a lotus in her
uplifted right hand was the characteristic local device
of the coins of the Hindu rulers of Mathura.
On a unique silver coin of the Yaudheyas in the
British Museum is found the figure of the six-headed
K盲rttikeya on the obverse and that of a female deith
standing on a lotus on the reverse. The female figure
is taken to be that of Laksmi by Allan and Banerji.
On two uncertain coins in the British Museum, one
having the legend Jyesthasa and the other v墨rasena, there
is a female figure standing and holding a stalk of flower
growing beside her, suggesting one aspect of Laksmi in
which she stands on a lotus flower, with lotus flowers
20 Alf Ailtebutel, "The Ritual of Battle Ithaca", NY : Cornell
University Press, 1976, p. 176.
21 A.K. Coomaraswamy, op. cit., p. 42.