| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00047 |
| Title | Bihar Sharif Pillar Inscription 1 |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00043 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00048 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Source encoded | |
| Digitally edited by | |
| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | |
| Authoriy for improved | |
| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | ? |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 447 |
| Max | 475 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: later than Kumāragupta I, probably of the time of his son, probably Skandagupta. Earlier than IN00048. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1-1.6 |
| Description | northern class |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 22 |
| Height | 44 |
| Description | The inscription is on the octagonal section; this first inscription occupies four faces. Dimensions are estimated on the basis of the drawing of the pillar and the dimensions of the two inscriptions (IN00047 and IN00048) which together measure 40 by 104 cm. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported in Ravenshaw 1839. Published (with reading and eye copy) in Mitra 1866. Discussed (with new eye copy) in ASIR 01: 37-38. Edited in Fleet 1888. Corrections proposed in Majumdar 1943-44. Discussed in Goyal 1980. Majumdar and Altekar ascribe this inscription to a certain successor of Pūrugupta (Majumdar Altekar 1954: 442, no. 42). See also Ḳuraishī 1931: 56-57 and ARIE 1960-61: no. 195, App. B. |
| Add to bibliography | B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, pp. 72-74; Jagannath, Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, 20 (Sept. 1970), pp. 44-47; Sohoni in Journal of the Bihar Research Society, 49 (1963), p. 170. |
| Misc notes | |