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| Inscription ID | IN00097 |
| Title | Mandasor Inscription of Yasodharman’s Ministerial Family |
| Alternative titles | Mandsaur Inscription of Nirdoṣa; Mandasor Stone Inscription of Yaśodharman and Vishnuvardhana; Mandasor Inscription of V. S. 589 |
| Parent Object | OB00088 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00094 IN00095 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Dániel Balogh |
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| Digitally edited by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Yaśodharman |
| Commissioner | courtier's relative |
| Topic | inauguration of a well |
| Date: | |
| Min | 532 |
| Max | 533 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 589 (era: Mālava expired). Basis of dating: intrinsic. Date in words; no month or day given, but the inscription describes the spring season. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 0.6 |
| Description | northern class |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 52 |
| Height | 42 |
| Description | 25 lines in a very good state of preservation except for some characters obscured by an incrustation of lime and a few characters lost due to chipping at the ends of lines 1-3 and in a few other places. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First edited in Fleet 1886c. Republished in Fleet 1888. Corrections to translation as suggested by Kielhorn in Fleet 1889: 220. Further corrections to text and translation in Kielhorn 1891: 189. More corrections in Durgaprasad Parab 1892: 112-116. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 29-30 (No. 18). Identity or distinctness of Yaśodharman and Viṣṇuvardhana discussed in Hoernle 1889: 96, Fleet 1890: 227, R. G. Bhandarkar 1902: 392 and Hoernle 1903: 550n1. Further discussion in Sircar 1959-60d, Mirashi 1980b. |
| Add to bibliography | There may be a chapter on this in Agrawal 1986a (Researches in Indian Epigraphy and Numismatics). |
| Misc notes | IN00094 and IN00095 were engraved by the same artisan. IN00098 was composed by the same poet and engraved in a very similar hand, possibly by the same artisan. |