| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00055 |
| Title | Bhitari Seal Legend of Kumaragupta II |
| Alternative titles | Bhitari Copper-Silver Seal of Kumāragupta III |
| Parent Object | OB00050 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00053 IN00054 |
| 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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| Date: | |
| Min | 470 |
| Max | 515 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Kumāragupta II (III?). |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.3 |
| Description | northern class |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 10 |
| Height | 5 |
| Description | 8 lines of text, fully preserved. Campus size estimated from photo. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First announced in the newspaper Pioneer, 13 May 1889. Remarks by Vincent Smith in 28 May 1889 issue. Detailed account in Smith 1889. Edited in Hoernle 1889. Re-edited in Fleet 1890. Text also published in Sastri 1942: 66-67. Discussed in Willis 2005. See also, Agrawal 1940: 60-61, ARIE 1957-58: 14, no. 15, App. A, ARIE 1960-61: no. 55, App. A (Ascribed to Kumāragupta II) and Pandey 1962: 102-103. |
| Add to bibliography | Hirananda Sastri, Cat. Of Arch. Exhibits in the U. P. Provincial Museum, Lucknow, 1915, pp. 3-4; Jagan Nath in Journal of the Uttar Pradesh Historical Society, vol. XIII, pt. II (1940), pp. 100-101; B. Upadhyaya, SAII, pt. II, p. 74. |
| Misc notes | IN00053 and IN00054 have identical text. |