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Inscription ID IN00017
Title Mandasor Stone Inscription of Naravarman
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Parent Object OB00016
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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.
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Letter size 0.8
Description Mālwā variety of western Gupta alphabet
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Campus:
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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