Drachm - Vigrahapala Proto Sri Vigra dramma

The Pratihara Empire occupied the political center of northern India for much of the ninth century, controlling the Gangetic plain and repeatedly contesting Kanauj against the Palas and Rashtrakutas in a three-way struggle that defined the subcontinent's balance of power. This particular type, attributed to Vigrahapala and catalogued under the proto-Sri Vigra dramma classification by Maheshwari, sits in a transitional phase of Pratihara coinage where earlier Indo-Sassanian conventions were being reshaped into distinctly regional idioms. The date range reflects dynastic attribution rather than a known regnal mint record.