| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00043 |
| Title | Varanasi Stone Pillar Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00039 |
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| 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 | Budhagupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 478 |
| Max | 480 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 159 mārgaśīrṣa 28 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.2 |
| Description | northern class, eastern Gupta |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 30 |
| Height | 10 |
| Description | The inscription is on one side of the square base of the pillar. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported (with photograph of the pillar) in Banerji 1945: 5-6. Listed in ARIE 1952-53: 73 (B. 456). Edited in Sircar 1949: 5-7. |
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