| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00005 |
| Title | Vidisa Inscription of Ramagupta on the Image of Candraprabha |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00005 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00006 IN00007 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Digitally edited by | |
| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Rāmagupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 360 |
| Max | 380 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: person, Rāmagupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | Gupta characters of the 4th century, closely resembling those of IN00012. Bhandarkar (1981) gives no sizes. |
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| Height | |
| Description | Four lines inscribed on the pedestal of the image. No size data given in Bhandarkar (1981). |
| Decoration | The pedestal has no lāñchanas, only a cakra symbol in the centre of each. There are also two figures of what appear to be couchant winged lions, on the two sides of the inscription facing outward. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | The discovery of the images was reported in The Hindustan Times on 18 March 1969. The inscriptions were edited in Gai 1969a. Imagery analysed in Agrawala 1969. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 13-14 (No. 3). Discussed in: Shah 1969, Sircar 1969-70b, Mirashi 1977, Willis 2009: 231, Bakker 2010a: 463, and Dundas 2014: 231-232. |
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| Misc notes | Inscriptions IN00006 and IN00007 are identical but for the name of the image. |