Drachm - Vigrahapala Sri Vigra dramma

The Pratihara Empire's silver dramma coinage belongs to a dynasty that controlled much of northern India during the period when Arab expansion from Sindh was actively pressing eastward. The Pratiharas were among the powers that checked that expansion — a fact that shaped their political self-presentation and, indirectly, the prestige coinage they issued. Vigrahapala ruled during a stretch of sustained Pratihara dominance before the empire's eventual fragmentation under Rashtrakuta and later Ghaznavid pressure.

Maheshwari's classification of this type as Fig. 121 places it within a series distinguished by specific epigraphic conventions on the issuer's name — details that matter considerably for attribution, as Pratihara drammas are frequently misidentified in trade.