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1 Tanka - Indra Simha Deva
| Issuer | Dolakha Kingdom |
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| Year | 1540-1548 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central rectangular cartouche enclosing a multi-line Devanagari inscription, similar in layout to the obverse, with the legend arranged in horizontal rows within a double-line inner border. The outer field features a continuous ornamental border of scroll and foliate motifs closely following the coin's circular periphery, consistent with the artistic conventions of medieval Nepalese silver coinage of the Dolakha Kingdom. |
| Reverse script | Devanagari |
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Dolakha functioned as a semi-autonomous principality in the hills east of Kathmandu, and its coinage tradition is poorly represented in major collections. Indra Simha Deva's reign falls within a period of sustained fragmentation across the hill kingdoms before the Malla consolidation tightened regional authority. The RGV reference corpus remains one of the few systematic attempts to catalog this material, which rarely surfaces in Western auction records.
The 10.10g weight standard places this tanka within a local silver tradition that diverged meaningfully from the concurrent Kathmandu Valley issues.