| Metadata |
| Inscription ID |
IN00110 |
| Title |
Kosam Image Inscription of Bhimavarman |
| Alternative titles |
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| Parent Object |
OB00101
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| Responsibility |
| Author |
Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by |
Dániel Balogh |
| Source encoded |
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| Digitally edited by |
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| Edition improved by |
Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for |
Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by |
Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata |
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| Metadata improved by |
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| Language |
संस्कृतम्
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| Reigning monarch |
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| Commissioner |
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| Topic |
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| Date: |
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| Min |
457 |
| Max |
459 |
| Comment |
Intrinsic Date: 139 (era: Gupta?). The era may be Kalacuri (Bhandarkar), in which case the inscription would date from 386-388 CE. The date gives the year as 139 and the day as 7. The inscription is damaged between these two; possibly the day is in the second month of a lost season.
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| Hand |
| Letter size |
1.4 |
| Description |
northern class
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| Layout |
| Campus: |
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| Width |
27 |
| Height |
10 |
| Description |
The inscription is on the pedestal, which is broken. The middle of the first two lines is preserved along with traces of a third; line beginnings and ends are lost, probably along with additional lines at the bottom.
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| Decoration |
None. |
| Bibliography |
| References |
First noticed in ASIR 10: 3 with transcript and eye copy (Plate 2 No. 3). First edited in Fleet 1888. |
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