First reported by Hirananda Sastri in ARASI 1927-28: 138; first edited in Ghosh 1939-40. Discussed and pronounced spurious in Sircar 1941-42a. Genuineness discussed in Goyal 1993: 72-76. See also Sastri 1942: 77-78, Shastri 1943-44, Majumdar 1944-45 and Gupta 1953.
ARASI (1927-28)
138
Hargreaves, H. (ed.) (1931). Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India 1927-28. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch.
Bhandarkar (1929)
290, no. 2075
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.
Ghosh (1939-40)
50-53
Ghosh, A. (1939-40).
Nalanda Plate of Samudragupta: the Year 5, Epigraphia Indica, 25, pp. 50-53.
Sircar (1941-42a)
135-136
Sircar, Dines Chandra. (1941-42). Spuriousness of the Nalanda Plate of Samudragupta, Epigraphia Indica, 26, pp. 135-136.
Sastri (1942)
77-78
Sastri, Hiranand. (1942). Nālanā and its Epigraphic Material (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India No. 66). Dehli/Calcutta: Manager of Publications/Government of India Press.
Shastri (1943-44)
77
Shastri, Shakuntala Rao. (1943-44). The Nālandā and Gayā Plates of Samudragupta, Indian Culture, 10, no. 2, p. 77.
Majumdar (1944-45)
225-231
Majumdar, R. C. (1944-45). The Gayā and Nālandā Plates of Samudragupta, Indian Culture, 11, no. 4, pp. 225-231.
Gupta (1953)
94-95
Gupta, P. L. (1953). On the Dates of Copper Plates of Samudragupta. In: Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Sixteenth Session, Waltair, 1953. Patna: Indian History Congress.
Sircar (1965)
(vol. 1) 270-272, bk. III, no. 4
Sircar, Dines Chandra. (1965). Select Inscriptions Bearing on Indian History and Civilization. Volume I: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Sixth Century A.D. (Second Edition). Calcutta: University of Calcutta.
Agrawala (1983)
no. 3
Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi: Books Asia.
Goyal (1993)
62-67, 72-76
Goyal, Shri Ram. (1993). गुप्तकालीन अभिलेख/Guptakālīna Abhilekha (Inscriptions of the Gupta Age). Jodhpur: Kusumanjali Prakashan.