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| Inscription ID | IN00017 |
| Title | Mandasor Stone Inscription of Naravarman |
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| Parent Object | OB00016 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
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| Digitally edited by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Naravarman |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 403 |
| Max | 405 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 461 (era: Kṛta) āśvina śukla 5 (l2, l3). Basis of dating: intrinsic. Bhandarkar 1981: 265n3 argues that the year is elapsed, but this is not decisive. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.8 |
| Description | Mālwā variety of western Gupta alphabet |
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| Width | 48 |
| Height | 31 |
| Description | Campus dimensions show the width of the first fragment and the combined height of the two fragments. Full character heights vary between 0.7 to 1.7 centimetres; line height varies between 2 and 3 centimetres. 9 lines of text on the the first fragment, the last with some damage at the bottom and mostly covered over with plaster at present. The beginnings of 5 more lines are preserved on the second fragment. There were probably no lines lost between the two fragments, but there may have been additional lines lost at the end. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | Fragment A first reported in PRAS-W 1913: 58-59 and Bhandarkar 1913b. Discussed in Bhandarkar, R. G., 1913 and Shastri 1913. Edited in Shastri 1913-14 (with rubbing made by Bhandarkar). Sircar in SI prints only the text of this fragment. Fragment B first reported by M. B. Garde in ARASI 1922-23: 187. Edited in Bhandarkar 1981. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 28-29 (No. 17). Further discussion in Bhandarkar 1917, Bose 1938: 325-327. |
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