Delhi, Iron pillar, detail of the inscription (Wikicommons)
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00015 |
| Title | Mehrauli Iron Pillar Inscription of Candra |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00014 |
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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 | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 370 |
| Max | 416 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Candragupta II. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.8-1.2 |
| Description | Northern class, eastern Gupta, close in many respects to IN00001, but with very marked serifs. |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 85 |
| Height | 27 |
| Description | The bottom line is about 220 cm above the stone platform in its present location. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with eye copy) in Prinsep 1834b. Revised in Prinsep 1838c: 629-631. Further revised in Bhau Daji 1875b. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Discussed in Shastri 1913, Rana 1970, Vajpeyi 1972. Identity of Candra discussed in Goyal 1993: 84-91. See also Chakravarty 1926, Bhandarkar 1937, Sharma 1938-39, Sircar 1941, Kar 1950 and Pandey 1962: 80-81. |
| Add to bibliography | Jagan Nath, Journal of Indian History, Vol. XXI (1942), pp. 161-62; B. Upadhyava, SAII. pt. II, p. 53 & Pl.; Dashrath Sharma, Journal of Indian History, 16, pp. 17ff; D.C. Sircar Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal – Letters, Vol. V (1939), p. 407; Majumdar Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal – Letters, Vol. IX (1943), pp. 179ff; H. C. Seth in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 1943 pp. 127-129, and in Journal of Indian History, 16, p. 117; (J R?) Sharma IHQ 21 pp. 202ff [?]; N. P. Joshi, Journal of J N Jha Central Institute, 1976, pp. 223-238; Rana, Journal of Vishveshvaranand Research Institute 6, 1968, pp. 106ff; (Goyal? in) Nagari Pracharini Patrika sạṃ 2021 (69) pp. 261ff; Dinbandhu Pandey in Nagari Pracharini Patrika 3, pp. 61ff; Iyengar, Studies in Gupta History, pp. 24ff; Goyal, Proceedings of the All-India Oriental Conference Gauhati, pp. 153ff. |
| Misc notes | King Candra is most likely, but not beyond doubt, Candragupta II. |