Udayagiri (Madhya Pradesh). Cave 6 inscription panel to the right of the entrance.
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| Inscription ID | IN00009 |
| Title | Udayagiri Cave 6 Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II |
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| Parent Object | OB00009 |
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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 | Candragupta II |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 401 |
| Max | 403 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 82 āṣāḍha śukla 11 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.4 |
| Description | box-headed Central Indian variety of southern class |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 70 |
| Height | 12 |
| Description | The inscription occupies the upper part of the panel. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with text, translation and eye copy) in Cunningham 1854: 150-152. E. Thomas gives his own reading and a translation "approved of by Prof. Wilson" in Prinsep 1858: 246-247n4. Revised (with new facsimile) in ASIR 10: 50. First critical edition in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 18 (No. 2). Discussed in: Willis 2009: 57-58. See also, Dvivedi 1947: no. 551; ARIE 1961-62: 175, no. 1718, App. C; and Pandey 1962: 79. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII, pt. II, pp. 51-52; AR. of Arch. Dept., Gwalior State, Saṃvat 1974, No. 78. |
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