| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00054 |
| Title | Nalanda Seal Legend 2 of Kumaragupta II |
| Alternative titles | Nalanda Seal of Kumāragupta III |
| Parent Object | OB00049 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00053 IN00055 |
| 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 | Kumāragupta II(?) |
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| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 470 |
| Max | 515 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Kumāragupta II (III?). |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | northern class; mixed features of southern and eastern Gupta style |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 7 |
| Height | 5 |
| Description | 8 lines of text, probably fully preserved except for some damage due to a vertical crack near the middle. Campus size is a guess. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | See IN00053 for references; the two specimens are not discussed separately. |
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| Misc notes | IN00053 and IN00055 have 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. |