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{{Infobox royalty
|type = monarch
|name = Ishwar Manikya
|succession = [[Twipra Kingdom|Maharaja of Tripura]]
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|reign = 1600
|predecessor = [[Rajdhar Manikya I]]
|successor = [[Yashodhar Manikya]]
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|Ishwari Mahadevi
|Ishwari Mahadevi
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|house = [[Manikya dynasty]]
|religion = [[Hinduism]]
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{{Kingdom of Tripura}}

'''Ishwar Manikya''' was briefly the [[Maharaja]] of [[Twipra Kingdom|Tripura]] at the close of the 16th century.

It is believed that in the aftermath of the death of [[Rajdhar Manikya I]] in 1600, some confusion arose in regards to the succession to the throne.<ref name=Sarma90/> Historian Jai Prakash Singh suggests that the inauspicious [[horoscope]] of the old king's heir, [[Yashodhar Manikya|Yashodhar]], made the nobility hesitant in accepting him as monarch. It was through such a situation that Ishwar, as well as another individual, Virabhadra Manikya, made bids for the throne, though the former appears to have been more successful.<ref name=SinghP34>{{cite book|last=Singh|first=Jai Prakash|title=Coinage of Bengal and Its Neighbourhood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABYaAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Numismatic Society of India, Banaras Hindu University|page=34}}</ref>

His original name{{NoteTag|Ishwar Manikya having been an adopted title.<ref name=RoychoudhuryP23/>}} and relationship with the previous king are unknown. Among the possibilities is that he had been a brother of Yashodhar.<ref name=Sarma90/> Alternatively, he may have been Amaradurlabha, the younger brother of Rajdhar, who had been a distinguished veteran of the [[Kingdom of Mrauk U|Arakan]] wars under [[Amar Manikya]].<ref name=RoychoudhuryP23>{{cite book|first=Nalini Ranjan|last=Roychoudhury|title=Tripura through the ages: a short history of Tripura from the earliest times to 1947 A.D.|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoJ5AAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Sterling}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Chatterji|first=Suniti Kumar|author-link=Suniti Kumar Chatterji|title=Kirata-Jana-Krti- The Indo-Mongoloids: their contribution to the history and culture of India|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32096/mode/2up|orig-year=1950|year=1998|edition=2nd|publisher=The Asiatic Society|location=Calcutta|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32096/page/n165/mode/2up 218]}}</ref> Otherwise, he may have belonged to a collateral branch of the ruling dynasty.<ref name=Sarma90/>

There were coins minted in his name, though there is practically nothing known about him, with his name being omitted from the ''[[Rajmala]]'', the Tripura royal chronicle.<ref name=RoychoudhuryP23/> He was eventually ousted after a few months of rule in favour of Yashodhar, who had finally found backing from the nobility and formerly ascended the throne.<ref name=Sarma90/><ref name=SinghP34/>

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==References==
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[[Category:Kings of Tripura]]
[[Category:History of Tripura]]
[[Category:Dethroned monarchs]]

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