| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00057 |
| Title | Nalanda Seal Legend of Visnugupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00052 |
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| 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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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Viṣṇugupta |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 500 |
| Max | 550 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: approximate reign of Viṣṇugupta. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.2-0.4 |
| Description | northern class with mixed eastern and western features |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 5.5 |
| Height | 3.5 |
| Description | Four lines of writing are preserved at the bottom of the seal. Campus size estimated from photo. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | This plate was NOT noticed in Sastri 1931-32 or Sastri 1942: 64. First reported and edited (with plate) in Deva 1941-42. Discussed in Ghosh 1943. Recorded in ARIE 1959-60: 124, no. 447, App. C. |
| Add to bibliography | Nisar Ahmad in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, 33/2, pp. 55-58; Thaplyal in Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, 33/1, pp. 53-54 and 35, pp. 166-170. |
| Misc notes | |