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Debased Dinar - Meghama Siva Pashupati
| Uitgever | Tribes in Jammu and Kashmir (Kidarite Kingdom) |
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| Jaar | 600-700 |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Deity depicted as Siva Pashupati, Lord of Beasts, shown in full figure standing facing, turned slightly to the left. The figure raises the right hand in a ritual mudra gesture, while the left hand holds a filleted trident — the defining attribute of Siva. A lioness or tiger stands to the left behind the deity, reinforcing the Pashupati iconography. A partial Brahmi legend reading 'meghana' is visible in the upper left field, identifying the issuing ruler. The style is characteristic of late Kidarite coinage, combining Indian iconographic traditions with debased gold fabric. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Brahmi |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The Kidarite kingdom that produced this issue was itself a successor fragment of the broader Kushano-Sasanian collapse — a dynasty squeezed between Gupta expansion to the east and Hephthalite pressure from the north. By the seventh century, the surviving tribal issues from the Kashmir and Jammu region show progressive gold debasement that tracks, almost coin by coin, the erosion of whatever central authority remained. This piece falls squarely in that deteriorating phase.
The Pashupati type persisted long after the political structures that originated it had dissolved, copied by local chieftains who understood its prestige value even as they quietly reduced the fineness.