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| Emittent | Pratihara Empire |
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| Jahr | 836-885 |
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| Gewicht | 4 g |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Stylized depiction of Varaha, the boar avatar of Vishnu, oriented to the right within the field. Vaishnavite religious symbols flank the central motif, including a trident (trishula) to the left and a chakra (wheel) positioned beneath the deity's foot. The design is rendered in a schematic, highly abstracted style characteristic of late Gujara-Pratihara silver coinage, with bold incuse lines defining the principal elements. The flan is irregular in shape, as typical of hammered issues of this period. |
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| Reverslegende | श्रीमद आदि वराह (srimad adi varaha) |
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Bhoja I ruled the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire at its territorial apex, controlling much of northern India from his capital at Kannauj. His reign saw persistent three-way conflict with the Rashtrakutas and the Palas of Bengal — all three powers fighting for dominance over the Gangetic plain across several decades. The coinage attributed to his reign draws directly from degraded post-Gupta silver types, the imagery having been abstracted over generations of mechanical copying until the original forms are barely legible to non-specialists.
Mitchiner's NI#335 attribution places this squarely within the regional Pratihara series, though precise reign-level attribution within the dynasty remains contested among South Asian numismatists.