| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00049 |
| Title | Nalanda Seal Legend of Budhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00044 |
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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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| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 470 |
| Max | 500 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Budhagupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.25-0.5 |
| Description | northern class |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 5.4 |
| Height | 5.7 |
| Description | The beginning of each line is lost. The eight lines of the inscription are increasingly defaced (perhaps because the top part of the seal had been pressed more strongly). The characters of the last three lines are also smaller than those above. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | Briefly noticed in Sastri 1931-32: 77 (postscript). Edited (with plate) in Sastri 1942: 64. Discussed in Sircar 1943b: 272-275 and Ghosh 1943. |
| Add to bibliography | Nisar Ahmad in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, 33/2, pp. 44-47. |
| Misc notes | Bhandarkar 1981: 355-356 describes how the Nalanda seals were originally raw clay (one is pierced, with traces of string running through it), and were probably baked accidentally in a monastery fire. |