Allāhābād (Uttar Pradesh). Inked impression of the praśasti of Samudragupta. Courtesy Zenodo.
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| Inscription ID | IN00001 |
| Title | • Allāhābād Praśasti of Samudragupta |
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| Parent Object | OB00001 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Samudragupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 345 |
| Max | 380 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Samudragupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1-2 |
| Description | northern class, called eastern Gupta by Bhandarkar |
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| Width | 200 |
| Height | 160 |
| Description | The last line of the inscription is 180 cm above the point where the column starts from its present pedestal. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed 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 1870 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. |
| Add to bibliography | Sadhu Ram, Journal of Ancient Indian History 1 pp. 65-77; B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, pp. 47-49 and Pl.; Chhabra Indian Culture 14/4 p. 1; someone "हेरास" in Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 12 pp. 455ff; Sohoni in Journal of Bihar Research Society, 51 (1965), pp. 28-47; Goyal, Proceedings of the All-India Oriental Conference Gauhati, pp. 153ff. |
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