Bhitri pillar inscription, estampage (Wikicommons).
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00036 |
| Title | Bhitari Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00032 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Skandagupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 450 |
| Max | 475 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Skandagupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6-1.1 |
| Description | northern class, western Gupta |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 67 |
| Height | 72 |
| Description | The inscription is on the eastern side of the smooth upper part of the base. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed in Prinsep 1836: 661. Transliterated and translated in Mill 1837, partially reprinted and discussed in Prinsep 1858: 240-248. Discussed (with new transcript) in ASIR 01: 97-99 and plate XXX. Revised reading and translation in Bhau Daji 1875a. Revised and re-translated again in Indraji 1885, then re-edited in Fleet 1888. Further corrections in Agrawal 1941: 60, Chhabra 1963. Further discussion in Chhabra 1965, Mirashi 1980a, Agrawal 1986a: 63, Bakker 2005 and Willis 2009: 144-149. See also, Basham 1955, Sharma 1957 and Thakur 1961. Discussion of the Puṣyamitras in Peterson 1885: 189, Bhandarkar 1885, Divekar 1919 and Agrawal 1946. |
| Add to bibliography | Sadhu Ram in Journal of Vishveshvaranand Institute, 4, p. 74; Dasarath Sharma in Journal of Indian History, 43, no. 1 (1965), pp. 219-225; B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, pp. 70-72; Jagan Nath, Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society, Vol. XIII, Pt. II (1940), p. 99; Bhattasali IHQ 21 p. 24 [?]. More on readings in line 15: Jagannath in Bhāratīya Vidyā, 9, pt. 1, pp. 281-283. |
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