Udayagiri, Cave 8 inscription, detail
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00014 |
| Title | Udayagiri Cave 8 Inscription of the Time of Candragupta II |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00013 |
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| Responsibility | |
| 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 | 370 |
| Max | 416 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Candragupta II. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 2-3 |
| Description | eastern Gupta, almost identical to IN00001 |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 110 |
| Height | 35 |
| Description | The rock surface is damaged by peeling off, but the text is largely legible. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with transliteration, translation [by Raja Shivprasad Sitar-e-Hind] and manual transcript) in ASIR 10: 51-52. Some errors pointed out in Hultzsch 1882: 312. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Slightly revised in Bühler 1891: 226-227. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 19-20 (No. 4). Discussion: Willis 2009: 39-41, 216. See also, Dvivedi 1947: no. 645; ARIE 1961-62: 175, no. 1718, App. C; Pandey 1962: 80. |
| Add to bibliography | AR. of Arch. Dept., Gwalior State, Saṃvat 1974, No. 79; Jagan Nath, Journal of Indian History, Vol. XXI (1942), pp. 156-57. |
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