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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 55

Tripura, Vijaya Manikya, Tanka, 10.54g, Sk 1482, citing Queen Lakshmi and commemorating a ritual bath in the River Lakhi, figure of Ardhanarishvara, date below, Śaka to left, within circle and toothed border, with beads between the teeth, rev. in five lines: Lakshya Snayi/ Śri Śri Tripura Ma/hesh Vijaya Mani/kya Deva Śri Lakshmi/ Rani Devyah within 12-arched and circular border (RB. 116; KM. 67), very fine, scarce

The River Lakhi is a branch of the Brahmaputra that passes near to Sonargaon and Dacca. The ritual bath was presumably undertaken during another foray 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.

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