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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2875624, member: 57364&quot;]Great addition !</p><p>With the &quot;Shri&quot;you mean the trident standard the king is holding ?</p><p>The &quot;Octopus&quot; i&#039;d rather think it is the hand of the king. In the early Toramana type you can see it coming from its sleeve.</p><p><br /></p><p>All the coins i showed are mine. The &quot;Lion seat&quot; also occurs on AV coins issued under Kumaragupta (ca 414-450AD). From these it is inferred that the deity may actually be a mix between Lakshmi and Durga. In this form she also appears in later religious use as &quot;Maha-Lakshmi&quot;, the mother-god.</p><p>(The lion traditionally is associated with Durga. The pot which can be seen next to the deity on my last example is a symbol of wealth and associated with Lakshmi.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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