Sārnāth (Uttar Pradesh). Standing Buddha dated year 157 in the reign of Budhagupta after ASIR 1914-15 (Wikicommons).
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00041 |
| Title | Sarnath Buddha Image Inscription 1 of the Time of Budhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00037 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00042 |
| Responsibility | |
| 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 | Budhagupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 476 |
| Max | 478 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 157 vaiśākha 7 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1 |
| Description | northern class, practically identical to those of IN00039 |
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| Description | The inscription is on the pedestal, for which no size data are available. Bhandarkar (1981: 333) says "what space each [of the two inscriptions? of the three lines?] originally covered it is difficult now to determine, as the inscriptions are in fragmentary condition." |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported by Hargreaves (with plate of the image, and transliterated text by Y. R. Gupte) in ARASI 1914-15: 124-125. Also (possibly earlier), by Gupte in PRAS-N 1914-15 [page numbers unknown]. See also Agrawal 1940: 60 and ARIE 1959-60: 135, no. 594, App. C. |
| Add to bibliography | Jagannath in Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society, 13, no. 2 (1940), p. 100. |
| Misc notes | IN00042 has identical text. |