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Gold Sanskrit Prize medal - East India College, Haileybury
| Location | India - British (British India) |
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| Year | 1809-1858 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A female personification of India stands facing right, draped in ornate robes and jewellery, wearing an elephant headdress. She holds a stylus or writing instrument in her raised hands, with a writing tablet or lectern to her left and a lotus flower in the field to her right, all on a raised platform base. |
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| Reverse description | Central Devanagari legend in three lines within the field, surrounded by a circular Devanagari inscription filling the border. The design is entirely composed of raised Sanskrit lettering with no figurative elements. |
| Reverse script | Devanagari |
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