Kahaum (Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh). Detail of pillar inscription (Wikicomons).
Kahaum (Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh). Estampage (Wikicommons).
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00034 |
| Title | Kahaum Pillar Inscription of the Time of Skandagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00030 |
| 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 | Skandagupta |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 460 |
| Max | 462 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 141 jyeṣṭha (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.6-2.2 |
| Description | northern class, eastern Gupta |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 67 |
| Height | 51 |
| Description | The inscription is on the three northern faces of the octagonal section of the pillar; the bottom of the inscribed area is about 230 cm from the ground. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed by Montgomery Martin in 1838 (see Martin 1838 [re-published 1976]: 366-367) in a compilation of Francis Hamilton Buchanan's reports (Buchanan's original report on the Bengal Presidency was completed in 1816 according to Goyal 1993: 152). Also reported in Liston 1838: 33-34. Transliterated and translated in Prinsep 1838a (translation reprinted in Prinsep 1858: 250). First verse revised and translated in Hall 1860: 530n24; revised again in Hall 1861a: 3n. Also described in ASIR 01: 91-94. Edited (with new facsimile) in Indraji Burgess 1881. Re-edited in Fleet 1888. Discussed in Pandey 1952. See also, Pandey 1962: 92. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII, pt. II, pp. 68-69; Jain Shilalekh Sangrah, vol. 2, p. 58. |
| Misc notes | |