Paharpur charter (side 1).
Paharpur charter (side 2).
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00065 |
| Title | Paharpur Charter of the Time of Budhagupta |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00059 |
| Related Inscriptions | |
| 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 |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | |
| Authoriy for improved | |
| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Budhagupta |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | |
| Date: | |
| Min | 478 |
| Max | 480 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 159 māgha 7 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | |
| Description | northern class, closely resembling IN00044 and IN00046 |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 18 |
| Height | 11 |
| Description | Campus dimensions estimated from plate size. 12 lines on recto, 13 on verso; letter height is smaller on the verso, leaving an empty margin at the bottom. The writing extends almost to the edges of the plate at all other margins. A hole caused accidentally during the plate's recovery has damaged some letters of the penultimate three lines on the recto and the first three lines on the verso; there is also some damage to the left-hand margin (recto view). |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported and edited (with plate) in Dikshit 1929-30. Recorded in ARIE 1956-57: 27, no. 14, App. A. |
| Add to bibliography | R. G. Basak, BSS. (Bengali) Vol. XXXIX, pp. 143 ff. & Pl.; B. Upadhyaya, SAII. pt. II, pp. 89-90. |
| Misc notes | |