Editing Narasimha (section)

===Coins, inscriptions and terracotta===
Narasimha is influential in the 5th-century CE, when various Gupta Empire rulers minted coins with his images or sponsored inscriptions that associated the powers of Narasimha with their own. The rulers thus showed their rule as someone like Narasimha who killed and destroyed evil.<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel E Bassuk|title=Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: The Myth of the God-Man|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=k3iwCwAAQBAJ |year=1987|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-349-08642-9|pages=27–28}}</ref> Some of the coins of the Kushan era show Narasimha, showing his influence.<ref>Emilia Smagur 92015), Vaishnavite Influences in the Kushan Coinage, ''Notae Numismaticae. Zapiski numizmatyczne'', Issue 10, pages 63-85</ref>

Some of the oldest Narasimha terracotta artworks have been dated to about the 2nd century CE, such as those discovered in Kaushambi.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Los Angeles County Museum of Art|author2=Pratapaditya Pal|title=Indian Sculpture: Circa 500 B.C.-A.D. 700|url=https://archive.org/details/indiansculpturec00losa |url-access=registration|year=1986|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05991-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/indiansculpturec00losa/page/192 192]}}</ref> A nearly complete, exquisitely carved standing Narasimha statue, wearing a ''pancha'', with personified attributes near him has been found at the Mathura archeological site and is dated to the 6th century CE.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Los Angeles County Museum of Art|author2=Pratapaditya Pal|title=Indian Sculpture: Circa 500 B.C.-A.D. 700|url=https://archive.org/details/indiansculpturec00losa |url-access=registration|year=1986|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05991-7|pages= [https://archive.org/details/indiansculpturec00losa/page/252 252]–253}}</ref>