Today marks a day when old coins, special coins and other things are brought out from their confinement. Washed, worship and put back again till next day.
Unlike previous years, I wasn't much interested in this custom. May be from past many years I hadn't done it, I was tired at end of day by doing nothing! whatever!!
Still Around 10pm, I sat down finally with the container [which contains all those coins] and other material require to follow the ritual. Instead of following scripture, I followed the heart and tried to connect myself with the worship. More it turn out towards my connection and Prayer. Whole view and words were different. Actions were some what similar but intent, feelings were different. As process went on, something i saw.
An observation done after so many years.. I had see those coins many time ago, off course during Dewali only.
What I observed created ripples of question. They were the ones who distracted me from continuing and completing the custom rituals. I tried and as I finished all duty. straight went to google, followed by wikipedia.. and few things I found, learnt were quite surprising and many of you might not know them. thus sharing them. One request, this is just an observation and some questions asked.. but see it from heart, as mind will try to link it with many things going around...
First thing I noticed was the coin of year 1919..King George V on obverse side. reverse side, denomination and year were printed in english and...
you see yourself..
Indian Rupee [1918]
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Further down, I found coin little more older of 1913 and 1905
one is here for your observation: Indian rupee [1905]
Oldest among them was of east india company. something like this one: Indian rupee [1835]
So on all this you will see english as main language and other being urdu/arabic [not sure]
people knew denomination of coin by figure, shape & size..
In 1947 coin, there are three language in which denomination been mentioned - Hindi, English & Urdu
Also, found one coin which has four languages - apart from Hindi, Urdu & english, fourth one as per my guess might be nepali or bangali..
Here is one from indian state of Baroda.. [source: wikipedia]
one of the interesting fact which I never heard from any old people is where all our currency were used. South-east Asia is common, they all might be using same currency Ruppee...
from wiki page as it is..
International use
After the Partition of India, the Pakistani rupee came into existence, initially using Indian coins and Indian currency notes simply overstamped with "Pakistan". Previously the Indian rupee was an official currency of other countries, including Aden, Oman, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, the Seychelles and Mauritius.
The Indian government introduced the Gulf rupee – also known as the Persian Gulf rupee (XPGR) – as a replacement for the Indian rupee for circulation outside the country with the Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act of 1 May 1959. The creation of a separate currency was an attempt to reduce the strain on India's foreign reserves from gold smuggling. After India devalued the rupee on 6 June 1966, those countries still using it – Oman, Qatar, and the Trucial States (which became the United Arab Emirates in 1971) – replaced the Gulf rupee with their own currencies. Kuwait and Bahrain had already done so in 1961 and 1965, respectively.[17]
The Bhutanese ngultrum is pegged at par with the Indian rupee; both currencies are accepted in Bhutan. The Nepalese rupee is pegged at ₹0.625; the Indian rupee is accepted in Nepal, except ₹500 and ₹1000 banknotes, which are not legal tender in Nepal and is banned by the Government of Nepal, though accepted by many retailers.[18] On 29 January 2014, Zimbabwe added the Indian rupee as a legal tender to be used.
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In those mind, where questioned came after observing coins of 1918,1835. on use of language... last part International use might give some clue...
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I am back to my wonderland... investigating and just feeling studious of this online research [so called]. Indeed History gives many insight, only to go forward and not backward. Indeed whole hour became more interesting and finding, tinkering and observing. Yes coins can be observed from many point of view, but this time instead of weight, material, dates and other, notice went on language used on coin. Actually first thing I had observed was a Australian 2 dollar coin which has something in Braille [This is also guess.. not done worship of google.. To tell a fact, google tailors the search result.. my new school website temporary one is online since yesterday. You search with key words in google, you will not get it. put same keywords in yahoo, you will find it on first place!!! so that's where we are...]
and those who want to see online coin museum and more detail please go here
https://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-ancient.html
and
those who love poems.. here is couplet coins.
https://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-others.html
and this virtual museum makes it more easy
http://coinindia.com/home.html
list can go on and many things are there...
I stop here, and you also might like to go and celebrate...
Have a great celebration time ahead...
Have a great celebration time ahead...
Unlike previous years, I wasn't much interested in this custom. May be from past many years I hadn't done it, I was tired at end of day by doing nothing! whatever!!
Still Around 10pm, I sat down finally with the container [which contains all those coins] and other material require to follow the ritual. Instead of following scripture, I followed the heart and tried to connect myself with the worship. More it turn out towards my connection and Prayer. Whole view and words were different. Actions were some what similar but intent, feelings were different. As process went on, something i saw.
An observation done after so many years.. I had see those coins many time ago, off course during Dewali only.
What I observed created ripples of question. They were the ones who distracted me from continuing and completing the custom rituals. I tried and as I finished all duty. straight went to google, followed by wikipedia.. and few things I found, learnt were quite surprising and many of you might not know them. thus sharing them. One request, this is just an observation and some questions asked.. but see it from heart, as mind will try to link it with many things going around...
First thing I noticed was the coin of year 1919..King George V on obverse side. reverse side, denomination and year were printed in english and...
you see yourself..
Indian Rupee [1918]
Further down, I found coin little more older of 1913 and 1905
one is here for your observation: Indian rupee [1905]
Oldest among them was of east india company. something like this one: Indian rupee [1835]
So on all this you will see english as main language and other being urdu/arabic [not sure]
people knew denomination of coin by figure, shape & size..
In 1947 coin, there are three language in which denomination been mentioned - Hindi, English & Urdu
Also, found one coin which has four languages - apart from Hindi, Urdu & english, fourth one as per my guess might be nepali or bangali..
Here is one from indian state of Baroda.. [source: wikipedia]
one of the interesting fact which I never heard from any old people is where all our currency were used. South-east Asia is common, they all might be using same currency Ruppee...
from wiki page as it is..
International use
After the Partition of India, the Pakistani rupee came into existence, initially using Indian coins and Indian currency notes simply overstamped with "Pakistan". Previously the Indian rupee was an official currency of other countries, including Aden, Oman, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, the Seychelles and Mauritius.
The Indian government introduced the Gulf rupee – also known as the Persian Gulf rupee (XPGR) – as a replacement for the Indian rupee for circulation outside the country with the Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act of 1 May 1959. The creation of a separate currency was an attempt to reduce the strain on India's foreign reserves from gold smuggling. After India devalued the rupee on 6 June 1966, those countries still using it – Oman, Qatar, and the Trucial States (which became the United Arab Emirates in 1971) – replaced the Gulf rupee with their own currencies. Kuwait and Bahrain had already done so in 1961 and 1965, respectively.[17]
The Bhutanese ngultrum is pegged at par with the Indian rupee; both currencies are accepted in Bhutan. The Nepalese rupee is pegged at ₹0.625; the Indian rupee is accepted in Nepal, except ₹500 and ₹1000 banknotes, which are not legal tender in Nepal and is banned by the Government of Nepal, though accepted by many retailers.[18] On 29 January 2014, Zimbabwe added the Indian rupee as a legal tender to be used.
------------------
In those mind, where questioned came after observing coins of 1918,1835. on use of language... last part International use might give some clue...
---------------
I am back to my wonderland... investigating and just feeling studious of this online research [so called]. Indeed History gives many insight, only to go forward and not backward. Indeed whole hour became more interesting and finding, tinkering and observing. Yes coins can be observed from many point of view, but this time instead of weight, material, dates and other, notice went on language used on coin. Actually first thing I had observed was a Australian 2 dollar coin which has something in Braille [This is also guess.. not done worship of google.. To tell a fact, google tailors the search result.. my new school website temporary one is online since yesterday. You search with key words in google, you will not get it. put same keywords in yahoo, you will find it on first place!!! so that's where we are...]
and those who want to see online coin museum and more detail please go here
https://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-ancient.html
and
those who love poems.. here is couplet coins.
https://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-others.html
and this virtual museum makes it more easy
http://coinindia.com/home.html
list can go on and many things are there...
I stop here, and you also might like to go and celebrate...
Have a great celebration time ahead...
Have a great celebration time ahead...
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