Rahulvai, Thanks for your nice opinion. I was for Buddha earlier but later I changed my mind after reading a comment somewhere (I guess it was in mysansar.com). Currency bill may be used in all good and dirty business. Being Buddha a god rather than a person, it would hurt devotion and feeling of a large number of people if they find the currency with Buddha's face is in bad statute. One of the worst example may be our sacred temples and meat market. We know, we can see a massive scale of animals butchered in our temples during festive seasons where a lot of currency bills dip into animal bloods. Also, currency bills travelled through meat market, vegetable market and butcher house do rarely exit clean. The currency bills are very likely to come out with an ugly spots, bloody marks, signatures, cartooned mustache or beard etc. on the beautiful face of Buddha. Do you think we would be able to stop that, at least polluting currency bills by blood spots and other religiously unpure dirts? No, we won't be able to stop that. No need to remind that Buddha is the strongest advocate of stopping bloodshed in the world. Wouldn't it be a huge insult of all Buddha-bachan and his lessons if we won't be able to prevent involving the buddha printed currency bills in those bloody and dirty circumstance? Yes it would be huge insult. So, how can we prevent then, the easiest way is to prevent or take Buddha's face off from currency bill. I believe, it would be good not to speak for nepal sambat, because of the reasons you presented.