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INDEPENDENT KINGDOMS : TRIPURA

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:20,000.00 INR Estimated At:40,000.00 - 50,000.00 INR
INDEPENDENT KINGDOMS : TRIPURA
Vijaya Manikya, Silver Tanka, 10.43g, SE 1482, Ritual bath in River Lakhmia, Rev: Leg, Sri Lakshmi Rana Devi Figure of Ardhanarishvara, Obv: Figure of Ardhanarishvara, composed of half of the ten-handed Durga, seated on her lion and half of the four handed Shiva, seated on his bull, date Sake 1482 below, toothed border, Rev: Bengali legend Lakshyasnayi/Sri Sri Tripura Ma/heshVijaya Mani/kya Deva Sri Lakshmi/Rani Devyahwithin twelve arched scalloped border with beads between arches (R&B# 116, KM# 67). Very fine+, extremely rare.

The River Lakhi is a branch of the Brahmaputra that passes near to Sonargaon and Dhaka. The ritual bath was presumably undertaken during another raid into Muslim territory. The depiction of Ardhanarishvara is unusually syncretic in as much as it is shown as half the ten-handed Durga seated on her lion, and half the four-handed Shiva seated on his humped bull.