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Krishna Devaraya - A renowned and revered emperor  of Vijayanagar Empire ruled in the 16th century from 1509-1529 AD.

He was a poet, scholar and warrior of yore.  He was a musician and composed many poems.  A benevolent emperor who treated his enemies with honour.  He is still fondly remembered by people of India.

India Post release stamps and miniature sheets depicting bronze statue of Krishna Devaraya.  The minature sheet shows three different coins of…

With more than 22 official languages and 10-12 scripts India that is Bharat has a unparallel collage of languages and scripts.…

Many might have raised eyebrows reading the title of the blog post, finding this irrelevant to hobby of coin collection but i will not disappoint you, please read on.

i decided to write this blog post when i learnt about a biggest ever community project to clean one of the mightiests and holiest river of India - river Yamuna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamuna

This river passes thru the capital of…

One of the coins featured in my blogpost Sanskrit Couplets on Gupta Coins is a Kshatrap Type silver coin of Chandragupta vikramaditya. Silver coins of Chandragupta II are very rare, especially the kshatrap type silver coins.

After the scythian rulers of western punjab became the feudatories of Chandragupta and after driving back kidar kushan to the indus valley chandragupta vikramaditya concentrated on western part of India - the malwa region ruled by scythian…

Instances are plenty. Many gupta coins hoards were found before Bayana containing upto 200 coins in one find. But most of them look insignificant when compared to the mammoth find of Bayana. Finding only gold coins was the most significant.

The other hoards which were found prior to Bayana in 1952 were mainly at:

Allahabad

Kalighat

Tanda

Jaunpur

Jhansi

Gopalpur etc

The above hoards were found during later half of…