AD 1543-1568 ENGRAVED VISHNU narayan SOUTH INDIA COIN

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Vijayanagara Vira Sadasivaraya Empire Coinage,

The Empire minted coins with Nagari, Kannada and Telugu legends, usuallygiving the name of the ruler.The empire had its mints in Hampi, Penugonda and Tirupathi. Gold, silver and copper wereused to make coins. Gadyana, Varaha, Pon, Pagoda, Pratapa, Pana, Kasu and Jital were the various coins issued in the Vijayanagar period the most beautiful Vijayanagar coins were those with the images of various gods and goddesses and animals and birds. The earliest coins feature Hanuman and the Garuda (divine eagle), the mount of Lord Vishnu. The Vijayanagar rulers also issued gold coins featuring divine couples. Venkatapatiraya III, one of the last Vijayanagar rulers, minted coins showing Vishnu with Sridevi and Bhudevi. Krishnadevaraya issued many coins featuring Balakrishna. He issued these coins after he built a Krishna Temple at Hampi and installed in it an image of Krishna that he had brought from Udayagiri after conquering it from the Gajapati ruler of Orissa. On these coins, the playful Krishna is seen seated. Lord Venkateshwara, the presiding deity of the temple at Tirumala (Tirupati), also figures on Vijayanagar coins. A rare copper coin of the Vijayanagar ruler Sriranga I show a standing figure of the emperor with a sword in his hand. Another rare copper coin issued by Sadasivaraya shows a fully caparisoned galloping horse. The elephant and the bull too appear on many Vijayanagar coins. A link included below depicts coins issued by each Vijayanagar ruler.

Venkateshwara (also spelt as Venkateswara, Venkateshwer, or Venkatachalapathi) is a much-worshipped God.

Venkateshwara, considered to be an incarnation of Vishnu, is so called in this form because of His residence in the Venkatam hills (the hills are more often referred to as ThiruVenkatam.) The Eshwara or God of the Venkatam hills is thus called Venkateshwara. This temple's location is popularly called Tirupati temple.

The Tirumala temple, where He is the presiding deity, is believed to be the richest of all the Hindu temples in the world. The temple is in southern India Andhra Pradesh in Chittoor district. It is around 120 km from Chennai, TamilNadu. The presence of seven hills influenced alternate names for the deity: Edu kondala vadu in Telugu and as Elumalaiyan in Tamil both of which mean "Lord of the Seven Hills".

He is also known as Maal, ThiruMaal, Manivannan, Balaji (though this is a more recent name), Srinivasa, Venkatesa, Venkatanatha, Thiruvengadam Udaiyaan, Tiruvengadattaan and by many other names. He is also worshiped with the name Tirupati Thimmappa all over Karnataka by traditionally Shiva-worshipping communities.

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