The four lined stone inscription was first published in 1963-64. It was discovered in what is considered to be a wall of ancient bricks which appear to have made a dam near the village of Hisse-Borālā. The inscription, which is dated to the reign of Devasena, contains a reference to the Śaka year 380 (i.e. A.D. 458-59), which is the earliest known reference to the Śaka era within the Vidarbha region. The inscription records the construction of a tank called Sudraśena by Svāmilladeva, an officer of Devasena.
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| Inscription ID | IN00192 |
| Title | Hisse-Borala Inscription of Devasena |
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| Parent Object | OB00179 |
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| 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 |
| Reigning monarch | Devasena |
| Commissioner | Svāmilladeva, an officer of Devasena |
| Topic | construction of a tank called Sudraśena by Svāmilladeva, an officer of Devasena |
| Date: | |
| Min | 457 |
| Max | 459 |
| Comment | Intrinsic Date: 380 (era: Śaka). Basis of dating: intrinsic. The date is problematic; see the bibliography for papers discussing it. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 3 |
| Description | southern class, Central Indian, no prominent boxheads |
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| Campus: | |
| Width | 122 |
| Height | 133 |
| Description | 4 lines in total, the last line shorter and centred, written in smaller characters. Deeply engraved and fairly well preserved except for some characters lost at the beginning and middle of line 1, and the end of line 3. Campus size is assumed to be equal to the size of the slab. |
| Decoration | The fourth line of the inscription is enclosed in a rectangular border. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | Reported in IAR 1963-64: 21-22 (No. 38) and 72 (No. 51), and in ARIE 1963-64: 86 (No. B316). Possibly first reported by Shobhana Gokhale in Śivaśakti (a Marathi daily) on 26 February 1964, and in Lokasattā (another Marathi daily) on 22 March 1964. Both these reports include Gokhale's original photographs taken in situ, prior to the second breakage of the stone. Edited in Gokhale 1967 and Kolte 1965 (these two editions are independent and simultaneous; Gokhale's was probably published earlier in spite of the later date). Date discussed by V. B. Kolte in Tarun Bharat (a Marathi weekly) on 4 December 1964 (his views are summarised in Gokhale 1967: 3-4); also in Gai Sankaranarayanan 1967 and Sircar 1967-68. Further discussion in Shastri 1969, Shastri 1970, Shastri 1987: 64-65 and Shastri 1997: 106-107. |
| Add to bibliography | Kolte also published about it in Vidarbha Samshodhak Mandal Annual (Vidarbha saṃśōdhana maṇḍala vārṣika)1964, pp. 137-156. |
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