| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00029 |
| Title | Mankuwar Buddha Image Inscription of the Time of Kumaragupta I |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00027 |
| Related Inscriptions | |
| 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 |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 428 |
| Max | 430 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 109 jyeṣṭha 18 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. Editors read the date as 100 20 9; Sircar 1969-70 convincingly argues for 100 0 9. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6-1.1 |
| Description | northern class, eastern Gupta closely resembling IN00001 |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 48 |
| Height | 4.5 |
| Description | The inscription is on the pedestal, one line along the top edge, another along the bottom edge. The height given here is for the two lines combined; the top line is about 2 cm tall, the bottom is 2.5 cm tall. |
| Decoration | Between the two lines of text at the top and bottom of the pedestal, there is a carved wheel in the centre, "with a man seated in meditation on each side, and a lion at each corner" (ASIR 10: 6). |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with transliteration and hand-drawn transcript) in ASIR 10: 6-7. Re-published in Indraji 1885: 354. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Discussed in Sircar 1969-70a, Willis 2014. See also, Pathak 1912; ARIE 1957-58: 81, no. 320, App. C; Agrawal 1986: no. 9. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p. 57. |
| Misc notes | |