Repousse Punch Pagoda - Maraa Pathi Western Ganga Feudatories of the Rashtrakutas

The Western Gangas of southern Karnataka operated as subordinate rulers under Rashtrakuta overlordship through much of the 9th and 10th centuries, though they maintained their own coinage traditions with remarkable independence of style. The repousse technique used on these pagodas — hammering the design from the reverse to create raised relief on the obverse — is a distinctly South Indian production method with roots predating the Ganga dynasty itself.

The "Maraa Pathi" attribution connects this piece to a specific dynastic epithet used by Ganga rulers, helping numismatists place issues within an otherwise poorly documented sequence.