First notice with lithograph, translation (by A. Troyer) and transcript (by Pt. Madhav Rao) in Burt 1834 (Bhandarkar 1929: 212 says this text and translation was commenced by a brother of Lieutenant T. S. Burt, finished by a Munshi, revised by Burt and ultimately reduced by Prinsep). Improved transcript in Mill 1834a, rudimentary genealogy in Mill 1834b. New lithograph (by Edward Smith) and improved transcript and translation in Prinsep 1837c (translation republished in Prinsep 1858: 233). Further improvement in a paper presented to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1970 by Bhau Daji (never published); also Bhau Daji 1872. Re-edited with more improvements in Fleet 1888. Revised yet again in Bühler 1890: 88-91 and discussed ibid: 31-45. Further discussion: Diskalkar 1925: 4-7, no. 3, Jayaswal 1932, Lakshminarayan 1942, Rahavan 1946-47, Chhabra 1948, ARIE 1952-53: 71, Sharma 1956, Sohoni 1958 and Pandey 1962: 72-76.
Burt (1834)
105-123
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Mill (1834a)
257-270
Mill, W. H.
(1834). Restoration of the Inscription, No. 2, on the Allahabad Column, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 3, 257-270.
Mill (1834b)
339-344
Mill, W. H.
(1834). Supplement to the Historical Remarks on the Allahabad Inscription, No. 2, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 3, pp. 339-344.
Prinsep (1837c)
963-979
Prinsep, James. (1837). Note on the Facsimiles of the various Inscriptions on the ancient column at Allahabad, retaken by Captain Edward Smith, Engineers, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 6, pp. 963-979.
Prinsep (1858)
233
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Bhau Daji (1872)
247
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Fleet (1888)
1-17, no. 1
Fleet, J. F. (1888). Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
Bühler (1890)
31-45, 88-91
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Diskalkar (1925)
4-7, no. 3
Diskalkar, D. B. (1925). Selections From Sanskrit Inscriptions. Part I – Text. Rajkot: D. B. Biskalkar.
Bhandarkar (1929)
212, no. 1538
Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. (1929). A List of the Inscriptions of Northern India in Brahmi and its derivative Scripts, from about 200 A. C. (Appendix to Epigraphia Indica volumes XIX to XXIII). Calcutta: University of Calcutta.
Jayaswal (1932)
207–211
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Lakshminarayan (1942)
141-144
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Rahavan (1946-47)
159-162
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Chhabra (1948)
104-113
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ARIE (1952-53)
71, no. 437, App. B
Sircar, Dines Chandra. (ed.) (1958). Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy for 1952-53. Delhi: Manager of Publications.
Sharma (1956)
83-87
Sharma, Dasharatha. (1956). Three Short Notes on Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar Inscription. In: Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Seventeenth Session: Ahmedabad. Patna: Indian History Congress Association.
Sohoni (1958)
34-46
Sohoni, S. V. (1958). First Part of Samudragupta’s Praśasti, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 39, nos. 1/2, pp. 34-46.
Pandey (1962)
72-76
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Sircar (1965)
(vol. 1) 262-268, bk. III, no. 2
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Bhandarkar (1981)
203-220, no. 1
Fleet, J. F., and Bhandarkar, D. R. (1981). Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings (Revised Edition). Edited by Bahadur Chand Chhabra and Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
Agrawala (1983)
no. 2
Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi: Books Asia.
Goyal (1993)
17-53
Goyal, Shri Ram. (1993). गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan.
Falk (2006)
158-61
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