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| Inscription ID | IN00066 |
| Title | Mathura Pedestal Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta |
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| Parent Object | OB00060 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Budhagupta |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 480 |
| Max | 481 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 161 bhādrapada 16 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6-1.3 |
| Description | northern class |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 43 |
| Height | 11.5 |
| Description | Five lines of text; chipping of the upper edge has damaged parts of the first two lines. The characters of the first line are a bit smaller to accommodate the invocation siddham plus an entire verse half. Traces of feet can be discerned on the upper surface, which implies that the pratimācatuṣṭaya referred to an inscription was not a single quadruple image but four separate images. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported in IAR 1982-83: 155 with photograph (plate 96 on page 173). Edited (with plate) in Thaplyal and Srivastava 1982; also edited in Agrawala 1983. Agrawala does not refer to Thaplyal & Srivastava's edition, which may have been published after Agrawala finished his manuscript. Also reported in Ramesh 1985: 10. |
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