| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00052 |
| Title | Nalanda Seal Legend 2 of Narasimhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00047 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00051 |
| 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 |
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| Metadata improved by | |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Narasiṃhagupta |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 465 |
| Max | 480 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Narasiṃhagupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | The characters are less well executed than in IN00051. |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 5 |
| Height | 4 |
| Description | The beginning of each line is lost; the extant part is progressively larger in each subsequent line. Campus size is a guess. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | See IN00051 for references; the two specimens are not treated separately. |
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| Misc notes | IN00051 has identical text. 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. |