| Metadata |
| Inscription ID |
IN00154 |
| Title |
Gopika Cave Inscription of Anantavarman |
| Alternative titles |
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| Parent Object |
OB00141
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| Related Inscriptions |
IN00152
IN00153
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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 |
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| Language |
संस्कृतम्
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| Reigning monarch |
Anantavarman |
| Commissioner |
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| Topic |
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| Date: |
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| Min |
450 |
| Max |
599 |
| Comment |
Basis of dating: palaeography. |
| Hand |
| Letter size |
2.5 |
| Description |
northern class, late Gupta
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| Layout |
| Campus: |
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| Width |
150 |
| Height |
60 |
| Description |
Ten lines of text in an excellent state of preservation, except for the apparently intentional obliteration of two characters (the name of the village granted) in the last line. Justified at the margins and with a vertical space down the middle; each half-line consists of exactly one half-verse.
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| Decoration |
None. |
| Bibliography |
| References |
First noticed (with an eye copy [next to p. 279] and a translation by Charles Wilkins [pp. 282-283]) in Harington 1788. Published (with transcript and translation by Kamalākānta Vidyālankār, and an eye copy [Plate 34, next to p. 672]) in Prinsep 1837a: 672-674. See also Kuraishi 1931: 40-42. |
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