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Inscription ID IN00075
Title Sanchi Railing Inscription of GE 131
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Parent Object OB00068
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Language संस्कृतम्
Reigning monarch ?Kumāragupta I
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Date:
Min 440
Max 442
Comment Intrinsic Date: 131 aśvayuj 5 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic.
Hand
Letter size 1.3-2.5
Description southern class, less carefully formed than IN00012
Layout
Campus:
Width 75
Height 60
Description Eleven lines, well preserved.
Decoration None.
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References First reported (with eye copy "most impartially taken before any attempt had been made to read it", and transcript by Pt. Rāma Govinda) in Prinsep 1837b: 457-459 (inscription 2). Discussed in Cunningham 1854: 192-193. Edited in Fleet 1888. Recorded in Marshall 1947: (vol. 1) 311, (vol. 3) pl. 129.104.
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