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KADAMBAS OF GOA: Sivachitta, ca. 1147/8-1181, AV pagoda, year chitrabhanu, ANACS MS62

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KADAMBAS OF GOA: Sivachitta, ca. 1147/8-1181, AV pagoda, year chitrabhanu, ANACS MS62
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KADAMBAS OF GOA: Sivachitta, ca. 1147/8-1181, AV pagoda, year chitrabhanu, cf. Chattopadhyaya-151, Zeno-274385 (same date), lion standing left, raising right front leg, sun, crescent and swastika to right, cyclical date citrabha (tentative reading) in Nagari to left // sri saptako- / tisvara labdhavara / sri shi(va)chitta vira va- / jradeva malava- / ramari ("the brave Shivachitta Vajradeva, the destroyer of the Malavas, who obtained boons from Saptakotisvara" [i.e. Shiva]), wonderful strike with full inscriptions and minimal weakness, ANACS MS62, RR. The year of Chitrabhanu occurred in 1162/3 AD during the reign of Sivachitta.