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500 Rupees No Date, Gray

Issuer Reserve Bank of India
Year 1997-2000
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Currency Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date)
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Obverse description Intaglio portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at right, turned three-quarters to the left with his name lettered below in both Devanagari and Roman script; the Sarnath Lion Capital emblem appears at centre-left beneath the bilingual promise-to-pay legend. A blank watermark window occupies the upper-left field, with the large denomination numeral '500' rendered in guilloche over a multicolour floral underprint at centre, and the Reserve Bank of India seal placed at lower right.
Obverse lettering भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक RESERVE BANK OF INDIA केन्द्रीय सरकार द्वारा प्रत्याभूत GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT मैं धारक को पाँच सौ रुपये अदा करने का वचन देता हूँ I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES पाँच सौ रुपये सत्यमेव जयते महात्मा गाँधी MAHATMA GANDHI गवर्नर GOVERNOR
Reverse description The central vignette presents an intaglio rendering of the Dandi March sculpture — a processional group of Mahatma Gandhi and his followers — set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in olive and green tones. The denomination numeral '500' is printed at both left and right margins, while a horizontal language panel at centre carries the note's value inscription in fifteen Indian languages.
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