| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00012 |
| Title | Sanchi Rail Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00011 |
| Related Inscriptions | |
| 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 |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 412 |
| Max | 414 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 93 bhādrapada 4 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.6 |
| Description | southern class; Bhandarkar calls it western Gupta; resembling IN00040, and the Aihole inscription of Pulakeśin II (of Śaka 556). |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 77 |
| Height | 53 |
| Description | The inscription is on the outer side of the rail. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported (with hand-drawn transcript made in 1824 by B. H. Hodgson) in Prinsep 1834a. Published (with facsimile made by Edward Smith, transliteration and translation) in Prinsep 1837b: 454-456. Edited (with text and translation) in Cunningham 1854: 152-154. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 18-19 (No. 3). See also, Marshall 1947: (vol. 1) 310, (vol. 3) pl. 129.98; ARIE 1961-62: 60, no. 146, App. B. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p. 52; Samaresh Bandhopadhyay in Journal of Ancient Indian History 4, pp. 124ff; A M Shastri in Journal of Ancient Indian History 5, pp. 199ff. |
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