Gadhaiya Paisa - Chittaraja Silaharas of Kokan

The Silaharas of Konkan were feudatories operating under shifting allegiances — first Rashtrakuta, then Chalukya of Kalyani — and Chittaraja's decade-long rule fell squarely within the period when the dynasty was consolidating its coastal holdings against the backdrop of Chalukya pressure from the Deccan. The Gadhaiya Paisa tradition itself descended from degraded imitations of Gupta-era coinage that had been circulating and mutating through western India for centuries, each successive issuer inheriting an already abstracted design.

Maheshwari's figures 52 and 53 document the specific die progressions attributable to Chittaraja, making attribution here unusually precise for a provincial silver of this period.