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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnYangMan, post: 3245177, member: 87271&quot;]Excellent topic [USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER]! Some beautiful lyres have passed by!</p><p><br /></p><p>So how about some percussion from the east? The Damaru (Damru) was Shiva’s ritual power drum, used for creating cosmic rhythm and the like. It is quite frequently encountered on early Indian coinage, but in my opinion most beautifully on the Pyu &amp; Mon city state coinage in what is now Myanmar/Burma. Take for example this silver unit (96 rattis) from the Pyu city state of Sri Ksetra, dating from roughly 750 to 835 AD. The obverse shows such a stylised Damaru, while the reverse sports a Stupa with the tree-of-life, a sankh shell and lightning bolt to either side and below the primordial ocean:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]850461[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The same Damaru symbol can be seen to the right of the temple on this earlier unit (80 rattis) from the city state of Beikthano (although recent scholarship has reattributed them to Halin). The drum on the obverse has been replaced by the rising sun.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]850462[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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