| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00013 |
| Title | Mathura Stone Inscription of Candragupta II |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00012 |
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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 |
| Commissioner | |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 370 |
| Max | 416 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Candragupta II. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1-2 |
| Description | northern class / western Gupta, almost identical to IN00008 |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 25 |
| Height | 29 |
| Description | Writing covers the entire surface of what is left of the stone. The first line is almost entirely lost; an increasing length of lines 2 to 10 remains; any number of subsequent lines may be lost. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (in passing) in ASIR 01: 237. (According to Fleet 1888: 26 [repeated in Bhandarkar 1981: 252], the inscription is also mentioned in Cunningham 1863; they do not, however, give a page number and this report has no section about Mathurā.) Discussed, with hand-drawn transcript, in ASIR 03: 37. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. |
| Add to bibliography | V. S. Agrawala, Mathura Museum Catalogue pt. IV = JUPHS. Vol. XXIV-V (1951-52), pp. 141-43. |
| Misc notes | What if this is in fact by Rāmagupta, broken up and built into a road face down after his dethronement? Though the pavement may have been built under Aurangzeb, see ASIR 01: 235-236. |