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1 Jital - Deva Raya II
| Issuer | Empire of Vijayanagara (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 1426-1446 |
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| Weight | 3.4 g |
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| Reverse script | Kannada |
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| Mintage | ND (1426-1446) |
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Deva Raya II is widely regarded as the most capable ruler of the Sangama dynasty, and his twenty-year reign saw Vijayanagara reach its greatest territorial extent before the empire's later Tuluva resurgence under Krishnadevaraya. He recruited Muslim cavalry archers and Turkic mercenaries into the imperial army — a pragmatic military reform that contemporaries noted with some surprise — and repelled repeated Bahmani Sultanate incursions into the Deccan. Copper jitals of this period circulated heavily in local markets and temple economies across the Karnataka plateau.