| Metadata |
| Inscription ID |
IN00109 |
| Title |
Mathura Pedestal Inscription of the Time of Skandagupta |
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| Parent Object |
OB00100
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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 |
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| Language |
संस्कृतम्
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| Reigning monarch |
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| Topic |
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| Date: |
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| Min |
454 |
| Max |
456 |
| Comment |
Intrinsic Date: 135 puṣya 20 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic. |
| Hand |
| Letter size |
0.6 |
| Description |
northern class
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| Layout |
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| Width |
47 |
| Height |
7 |
| Description |
Inscribed on the pedestal in 4 lines. The end of the last line is badly damaged, but the rest is in good condition. |
| Decoration |
A dharmacakra is engraved in the margin at the commencement of the inscription. |
| Bibliography |
| References |
First published in Dowson 1871: 184-185 (No. 8) with a lithograph (Plate 2 No. 8, after p. 196). Dowson's transcription reprinted with corrections in ASIR 03: 36-37 with a new lithograph (Plate 16 No. 22). Re-edited in Fleet 1888.
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