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  2. Padmanabhaswamy Temple treasure - Wikipedia

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    The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.

  3. Idukki Gold - Wikipedia

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    Idukki Gold or Kerala Gold (also known as Mahadevan or Neela Chadayan) is the name given to a cannabis strain originating in Idukki in Kerala state of southern India. It is internationally renowned as one of the finest cannabis strains in Asia. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Tola (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The tola formed the base for units of mass under the British Indian system, and was also the standard measure of gold and silver bullion. [1] Although the tola has been officially replaced by metric units since 1956, [ 8 ] it is still in current use, and is a popular denomination for gold bullion bars in Bangladesh , India , Nepal , Pakistan ...

  5. Malabar Gold and Diamonds - Wikipedia

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    Malabar Gold & Diamonds is an Indian jewellery group headquartered in Kozhikode, Kerala. The company was founded by M. P. Ahammed in 1993. [ 2 ] As of May 2023, it owns more than 330 showrooms across 11 countries, making it one of the largest chains of jewellery retailer in the world.

  6. List of currencies in Africa - Wikipedia

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    These included shells, [1] ingots, gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante)), arrowheads, iron, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 19th century a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency; multiples of X-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff.

  7. Economy of Thrissur - Wikipedia

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    It manufactures 70% of plain gold jewellery in Kerala per day. According to a survey, Thrissur city has been placed on 7th among the ten cities in India to reside. [ 2 ] According to Registrar of Companies, the period from 1 January to 31 March 2010, 87 companies were registered in Thrissur and stood second in Kerala after Cochin . [ 3 ]

  8. Tulabhara - Wikipedia

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    A tula-dana balance at the Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple in Kerala, India A tulabhara donation of bananas in progress at the Chottanikkara Temple in Kerala. Tulabhara, also known as Tula-purusha (IAST: Tulāpuruṣa) or Tula-dana, is an ancient Hindu practice in which a person is weighed against a commodity (such as gold, grain, fruits or other objects), and the equivalent weight of that ...

  9. Ndassima - Wikipedia

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    Ndassima is a gold mine in Ouaka prefecture in Central African Republic. It is the nation's only industrialized gold mine. It is the nation's only industrialized gold mine. It was taken from the legal owners, Axmin Inc. , during the civil war in 2013 before being seized by Wagner Group around 2017.