Tanka - Udaya Manikya

Udaya Manikya's reign lasted barely two years — he seized the Tripura throne in 1567 and was dead by 1568, likely killed in the dynastic violence that characterized the Manikya succession throughout the sixteenth century. Coins issued under his name are consequently rare, produced within a window too short to generate meaningful circulation volume. The Manikya rulers of Tripura maintained their own mint tradition largely independent of Mughal monetary influence, an unusual persistence of regional coinage identity in a period when Akbar's expanding empire was absorbing neighboring polities wholesale.