IN00101 Khurā (Urdu: كهُوڑه) Inscription of the the Alchon Hūṇa king Toramāṇa recording the gift (deyadharma) of a Buddhist monastery (vihāra) to the Mahīśāsaka school.
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| Inscription ID | IN00101 |
| Title | Khura Inscription of Toramana |
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| Parent Object | OB00092 |
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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 |
| Authority for metadata | H. T. Bakker, The Alchon (2019), chapter 4. |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Toramāṇa |
| Commissioner | Viśeṣavṛddhi |
| Topic | Donation of a Buddhist monastery by to the Mahīśāsaka division by Viśeṣavṛddhi, son of Roṭṭajayavṛddhi. |
| Date: | |
| Min | 485 |
| Max | 515 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: mārgaśīrṣa śukla 2. Basis of dating: approximate reign of Toramāṇa, conjecture. The intrinsic date is damaged, only the month and day are legible. The text also specifies a nakṣatra, but that again is illegible. |
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| Description | northern class; nail-headed Gupta characters with some peculiar forms |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 65 |
| Height | 35 |
| Description | Thirteen lines of unequal length. The campus size is estimated. The first three lines are badly damaged at the beginning and end, while last lines seems to have been deleted. The end of line 12 may also have been deleted and re-written. Previous editors say the rest of the stone is blank, but from the facsimile it is my impression that there may in fact have been writing on the entire surface (probably 18 lines total, the last short), but everything from line 13 has been erased. |
| Decoration | None. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported and edited in Bühler 1892, and published on the basis of inked impressions supplied to him by Burgess. For provenance see CONCORDANCE. |
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| Misc notes | Language is hybrid/corrupt Sanskrit. |