| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00019 |
| Title | Bilsad Stone Pillar Inscription of the time of Kumaragupta I: Primary (north column) |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00018 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00020 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | 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 | Kumāragupta I |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 415 |
| Max | 417 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 96 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1 |
| Description | northern class, western Gupta, with oblong box-heads |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 61 |
| Height | 57 |
| Description | The inscription of 13 lines is on the eastern side of the pillar. Agrawala (1983: 26) provides a third dimension (4.5 cm), which is presumably the depth of a recessed panel on the column. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with transliteration and eye copy) in ASIR 11: 17-21. Edited in Fleet 1888. Correction proposed in Agrawal 1940: 59. |
| Add to bibliography | Jagan Nath, JUPHS. Vol. XIII (1940), pt. II, p. 98; B. Upadhyava, SAII. pt. II, pp. 53-54. |
| Misc notes | |