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| Inscription ID | IN00024 |
| Title | Tumain Stone Inscription of Harideva and Brothers |
| Alternative titles | Tumain Inscription of Kumāragupta, year 116; Tumain Inscription of Ghatotkacagupta |
| Parent Object | OB00022 |
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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 | Kumāragupta I |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 435 |
| Max | 437 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 116 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.6 |
| Description | Northern class. Letter size from Agrawala 1983; Bhandarkar 1981 gives it as varying from 5/12" to 1-5/12", which would give 1 to 3.6 cm. Such a huge variation is only possible if he measures the full height of huge ligatures with i or something on top. |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 60 |
| Height | 18 |
| Description | Measurements approximate. The first half of each line is lost, as well as any number of lines at the bottom. The stone appears to have been re-cut and polished to give it beveled edges, which also caused damage to the last extant line. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed in Garde 1920. Edited in Garde 1941-42. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 12-13 (No. 2). See also, Dvivedi 1947: no. 553. |
| Add to bibliography | First notice in M. B. Garde, Annual Administration Report (Gwalior) for Vikrama Saṃvat 1975 (A.D. 1918-19); AR. Arch. Dept., Gwalior State, Samvat 1975, No. 65. Discussed in: Ranabir Chakravrti & Gopal Chandra Sinha, ‘A note on the Tumain inscription of Kumaragupta I, G.E. 113’, Indian Museum Bulletin, 20 (1985). |
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