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Inscription ID IN00020
Title Bilsad Stone Pillar Inscription of the time of Kumaragupta I: Duplicate (south column)
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Parent Object OB00019
Related Inscriptions IN00019
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Language संस्कृतम्
Reigning monarch Kumāragupta I
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Min 415
Max 417
Comment Intrinsic Date: 96 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic.
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Description northern class, western Gupta, with oblong box-heads
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Description The inscription is on the eastern side of the pillar. It is in 16 lines, as opposed to 13 in the other specimen. Dimensions are not available. Bhandarkar (1981: 268) gives the beginnings of the legible lines and notes that this duplicate has clarified some uncertain readings in the primary inscription. Cunningham (ASIR 11: 19) observes that the upper part is much injured and the seven middle lines are completely gone, but the last five lines are "in tolerable condition, and seem to correspond letter for letter with the last part of the northern pillar inscription." The eastern pair consists of square columns, bearing images of Gaṅgā (northern column) and Yamunā (southern column).
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References First noticed in ASIR 11: 17-21. Treated only in passing in discussions of IN00019; see there for further references.
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Misc notes

Cunningham (ASIR 11: 19-20) marks the line beginnings of this specimen in his text of IN00019; some, but not all, of the line beginnings are also shown in his Plate VIII of the primary specimen.