Seven lines of text are extant. The first 2-3 characters of each line is lost. Much of the seventh line is also broken away along with lines 8 and 9, but these were extant and had been copied when the inscription was first noticed by scholars.
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Inscription ID | IN00100 |
| Title | Gwalior Stone Inscription of Mihirakula |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00091 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | J. F. Fleet |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Source encoded | |
| Digitally edited by | Dániel Balogh |
| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Mihirakula |
| Commissioner | Mātṛceta |
| Topic | Establishment of a temple of the Sun. |
| Date: | |
| Min | 515 |
| Max | 540 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 15 kārttika śukla (era: regnal, Mihirakula). Basis of dating: intrinsic + reign of Mihirakula. No day, and the assumption of the pakṣa is based only on the restored reading gaganapatau nirmmale bhāti (l4-5). |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 1 |
| Description | northern class, similar to IN00099 |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 79 |
| Height | 13 |
| Description | Seven lines of text are extant. The first 2-3 characters of each line is lost. Much of the seventh line is also broken away along with lines 8 and 9, but these were extant and had been copied when the inscription was first noticed by scholars. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First edited (with translation) in Mitra 1861. Cunningham's ink impression published with Mitra 1862 (Plate i. No. I). Re-edited in Fleet 1888. Summarised in Trivedi 2001: 23 (No. 10). |
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