Gadhaiya Paisa - Somalekha Devi Chauhans of Ajmer

The Gadhaiya Paisa tradition descends from Gurjara-Pratihara imitations of the Sasanian drachm, so degraded through generations of copying that the original fire-altar and attendant figures became abstract geometric marks barely recognizable as derived from Persian prototypes. By the time the Chauhans of Ajmer were issuing coins under the Somalekha Devi attribution, the type had been in continuous stylistic decline for over three centuries.

The Chauhans were among the last major Rajput dynasties to strike this coinage before Prithviraj III's defeat at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 effectively ended independent Chauhan monetary production.