Mandasor (Madhya Pradesh). Inscription of the guild of silk weavers, Archaeological Museum, Gwalior (Zenodo).
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| Inscription ID | IN00040 |
| Title | Mandasor Stone Inscription of the Silk Weavers |
| Alternative titles | Mandasor Inscription of Kumāragupta and Bandhuvarman |
| Parent Object | OB00036 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
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| Digitally edited by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Bandhuvarman |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 473 |
| Max | 473 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 529 tapasya śukla 2 (era: Mālava expired). Basis of dating: intrinsic. The date of the inscription is in line 39. Another date (Mālava 493 sahasya śukla 13) is mentioned in l19. It seems certain that we are dealing with a single inscription of 529, mentioning an earlier event by date, and not with two separate inscriptions created 36 years apart. It is thus misleading to refer to this inscription as one "of Mālava year 493 and 529." |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.8 |
| Description | southern class |
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| Width | 78 |
| Height | 40 |
| Description | 24 lines of text in fairly good condition but with many scratches and some areas rubbed down. Two chips are broken off at the top left corner (affecting the first few characters of line 1) and around the middle of the left-hand side (affecting the first few characters of lines 11-13). |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported and briefly discussed in Peterson 1885: 380-381. First edited in Fleet 1886b. Re-edited in Fleet 1888. Corrected in Bhandarkar, R.G. 1889: 94-97. Further corrections in Kielhorn 1890 and in Durgaprasad Parab 1892: 107-112 (the inscription is in fact No. 26 in this book, not 51-52 as cited by Bhandarkar 1981: 322). Discussed and revised in Bühler 1890: 8-31 and 91-95; discussion translated to English in Bühler 1913: 137-148. Correction in Agrawal 1940: 60. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 20 (No. 5). Further discussion in Diskalkar 1926: 176-178, Pisharoti 1936, Sharma 1937, Pisharoti 1938, Sharma 1938, Bose 1938: 327-328, Sharma 1939, Sadhu Ram 1964, Vajpeyi 1972, Mirashi 1980b, Basham 1983, Agrawal 1986b (also published as Agrawal 1986a: 79-86). |
| Add to bibliography | Jagannath Agrawal in Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society, 13/2 (1940), pp. 99-100. |
| Misc notes | A lovable remark from Peterson 1885: 380n2, “I should very much like to publish it in full. But my friend Mr. Fleet … destines the inscription for his forthcoming Gupta volume: and in deference to whatever may be his rights of treasure-trove in the mater I willingly refrain from doing more now than adducing what is necessary to the matter in hand.” |