Sārnāth (Uttar Pradesh). Standing Buddha dated year 154 with estampage drawn from ASIAR 1915-15 (Wikicommons).
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00039 |
| Title | Sarnath Buddha Image Inscription of the Time of Kumaragupta II |
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| Parent Object | OB00035 |
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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 | Kumāragupta II |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 473 |
| Max | 475 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 154 jyeṣṭha 2 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 3.8 |
| Description | northern class, Central Indian type |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 48 |
| Height | 7 |
| Description | The inscription is on the pedestal. Dimensions and letter size are from Bhandarkar 1981, but note that 3 lines in letters 3.8 cm in height cannot possibly fit in an area 7 cm tall. Probably the letters are 1/2 rather than 1 1/2 inch high. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported by Hargreaves (with plate of the image, and transliterated text by Y. R. Gupte) in ARASI 1914-15: 124. See also Agrawal 1940: 60, ARIE 1959-60: 135, no. 595, App. C and Pandey 1962: 103-104. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p. 75; Jagan Nath, Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society, Vol. XIII (1940), pt. II, p. 100. |
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