Nālandā Grant of Samudragupta
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| Inscription ID | IN00003 |
| Title | Nalanda Grant of Samudragupta |
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| Parent Object | OB00003 |
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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 | 350 |
| Max | 360 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 5 māgha 2 (era: ?regnal, Samudragupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic + reign of Samudragupta. The document is possibly a fake or at least a later replacement of a genuine original. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.3 |
| Description | northern class, called eastern Gupta by Bhandarkar and "about the 6th century" by Agrawala (along with the Gaya plate) |
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| Width | 24 |
| Height | 21 |
| Description | Damaged in lines 4 to 7, particularly 7. The inscription fills most of the surface of the plate, with some margin on the proper right. Inscribed area dimensions estimated on the basis of plate size. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | 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. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p.50; Sohoni in Journal of the Bihar Research Society 52 (1966), pp. 20-28; S R Goyal in Journal of the Bihar Research Society 52 (1966), pp. 52-55. |
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