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Inscription ID IN00068
Title Bhitari Inscription of the Time of Budhagupta, Front
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Parent Object OB00062
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Author Dániel Balogh
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Language संस्कृतम्
Reigning monarch Budhagupta
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Date:
Min 489
Max 491
Comment Intrinsic Date: ?170 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. The date is unclear in the inscription (line 1); no alternative readings have been suggested.
Hand
Letter size 1.3
Description northern class
Layout
Campus:
Width 22.5
Height 17.8
Description Inscribed all over the front face of the reassembled slab, consisting of five entire lines and traces of the top of a sixth (not reported by Agrawala). The beginning of the first line (which is almost certainly the first line of the original inscription) is lost and any number of subsequent lines may have been present after the sixth.
Decoration None.
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References Apparently first described and edited in Agrawala 1983.
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