Eran (Madhya Pradesh). Estampage of Budhagupta pillar inscription (Zenodo).
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00045 |
| Title | Eran Pillar Inscription of the time of Budhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00041 |
| Related Inscriptions | |
| 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 |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 484 |
| Max | 486 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 165 āṣāḍha śukla 12; Thursday (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1.3-1.9 |
| Description | southern variety. The characters are larger and more loosely spaced in the first three lines, then seem to get progressively smaller, reaching a minimum in line 6. |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 77 |
| Height | 50 |
| Description | The bottom of the inscription is 1 metre above the pedestal, on the west side of the pillar (facing the temples). |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First noticed (with transliteration, translation and eye copy) in Prinsep 1838c: 633-634. Translation reprinted in Prinsep 1858: 249. Reading and translation revised in Hall 1861b: 17-20. Discussed and corrected in ASIR 10: 81-82. Critically edited in Fleet 1888. Discussion of date in Fleet 1891: 377. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 21 (No. 6). See also Pandey 1962: 106. |
| Add to bibliography | Hiralal, Inscrs. in C.P. & Berar, p. 47, No. 80; B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, p. 76. |
| Misc notes | It may be better to call this an inscription of Mātṛviṣṇu and Dhanyaviṣṇu, and likewise, to call each inscription by the name of its author if known, not of the Gupta emperor named in it. |