Eran Inscription of Samudragupta
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| Inscription ID | IN00002 |
| Title | Eran Stone Inscription of Samudragupta |
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| Parent Object | OB00002 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | 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 | 1.3 |
| Description | southern class, box-headed |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 24 |
| Height | 94 |
| Description | A fragment. At least six full lines have been broken away from the top (a stanza and a half, with one pāda per line as in lines 7 to 24 (slightly different in 9-10); there may also have been a prose incipit before the first verse), an unknown number of lines lost from the bottom. The first few characters of lines 7 to 24 are destroyed, and from line 25 onward one pāda of verse is also lost from the beginning of each line. Since the extant area is roughly rectangular, the original inscription must have covered a reverse L shape, which implies a carved image of some sort in the top left corner. The layout needs to be cleared by autopsy. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed in ASIR 10: 89. First edited in Fleet 1888. Discussed in: Sircar 1956. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 17-18 (No. 1). Text annotated in Jayaswal 1933: 140-141. See also Nath 1951 and Pandey 1962: 77-78. |
| Add to bibliography | Hiralal, Inscrs. in C.P. and Berar, p. 47, No. 79; Sircar in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Seventeenth Session: Ahmedabad (1954) pp. 72-78, reprinted in JUHPS NS 3 pp. 92ff; B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, pp. 49-50; Dasarath Sharma, Journal of Indian History, Vol. XIV (1935), pp. 27-29; Jagan Nath, Journal of Indian History, Vol. XIX (1940), pp. 27-29; Sohoni in JBRS 51 pp. 50ff; Mirashi Indian Antiquary series 3, 1/3 1964 pp. 174-176; Jagannath Agrawal in JOI vol. XX. pp. 51ff. |
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