| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00008 |
| Title | Mathura Pillar Inscription |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00008 |
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| 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 | Candragupta II |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 380 |
| Max | 382 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 61 prathama āṣāḍha(?) śukla 5 (era: Gupta, ?current). Basis of dating: intrinsic. See Bhandarkar 1981: 236 for details of the date. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | Northern class, early Gupta script, most characters indistinguishable from Kuṣāṇa script. Bhandarkar and Agrawala give no sizes. |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 70 |
| Height | 47 |
| Description | The inscription is on the five dressed faces of the central section of the pilaster, readable in horizontal lines across faces (with 3-4 akṣaras on each face) rather than as separate columns. The third of the five faces is badly abraded. Bhandarkar (1981: 234-235) theorises that the pilaster was already built in (perhaps into the shrine mentioned in the inscription) when the text was incised, and he takes the end of the inscription to be the first half of an āryā verse, for the second half of which there was no room available. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First edited and discussed in Bhandarkar 1931-32. Further discussion in Srinivasan 1969-70. See also, Ray 1932, Diskalkar 1936, Sircar 1942 and Pandey 1962: 78-79. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II. p. 51; V. S. Agrawala, Mathura Museum Catalogue pt. IV = JUPHS. Vol. XXIV-V (1951-52), pp. 143-5. |
| Misc notes | |