Memorial stone inscription discovered during cleaning undertaken by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Maharashtra Government in the early 1980s. The inscription is carved onto stones fixed on the inside wall of the mandapa of the Kevala-Narasiṃha temple at Ramtek. The inscription records a pious action of an unidentified daughter of Prabhāvatī Guptā, during the reign of her brother Pravarasena II. However the inscription is damaged and a clear reading is not possible at this point in time.
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| Inscription ID | IN00195 |
| Title | Ramtek Inscription of a Daughter of Prabhavatigupta |
| Alternative titles | Ramtek Memorial Stone Inscription |
| Parent Object | OB00182 |
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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 | Pravarasena II |
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| Date: | |
| Min | 400 |
| Max | 499 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: conjecture, palaeography. |
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| Description | nail-headed southern script |
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| Width | 100 |
| Height | 50 |
| Description | 15 lines, badly damaged in many places. Some of the damage is due to carelessness in removing the plaster over the inscription. The left and upper sides of both stones have flaked off, and each line ends in a jagged edge after which a substantial amount of text is lost. Bakker Isaacson 1993: 48 estimate the original width of the inscription at about 170 cm (possibly on further blocks to the right), or as much as 250 cm if lines 2 to 10 contained three rather than two upajāti stanzas. |
| Decoration | None. |
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| References | First reported in IAR 1982-83: 137 (No. 41). First edited and discussed in Jamkhedkar 1987a and Jamkhedkar 1987b. Discussed in Shastri 1987: 68-71 (independently of Jamkhedkar's edition) and Shastri 1997: 125-132. Jamkhedkar's edition republished with corrections in Jamkhedkar 1992. Re-edited and discussed in Bakker Isaacson 1993; this edition republished in Bakker 1997: 163-167, revised in Bakker 2010b and revised again in Bakker forthcoming in Selected Essays volume. |
| Add to bibliography | More discussion by Hans Bakker in: “The Antiquities of Ramtak Hill, Maharashta,” South Asian Studies, 5 (1989), pp. 79-102; “The Ramtek Inscriptions,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 52, no. 3 (1989), pp. 467-496; “Ramtek: An Ancient Centre of Viṣṇu Devotion in Maharashtra”, in The History of Sacred Places in India as Reflected in Traditional Literature, ed. Hans Bakker, (Leiden: Brill, 1990), pp. 62-85; “The Footprints of the Lord”, in Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India: Studies in Honour of Charlotte Vaudeville, eds. Diana L. Eck and Francoise Mallidon (Groningen/Paris: Ebert Forsten, 1991), pp. 19-37; “Throne and Temple: Political Power and Religious Prestige in Vidarbha”, in Sacred Centre as the Focus of Political Interest: Proceedings of the Symposium held on the Occasion of the 375th Anniversary of the University of Groningen, 5-8 March 1989, ed. Hans Bakker (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1992), pp. 83-101; “Memorials, Temples, Gods and Kings: An Attempt to unravel the Symbolic Texture of Vakataka Kingship”, in Ritual, State and History in South Asia, ed. A. W. van den Hoek, D. H. A. Kolff and M. S. Oort (Leiden: Brill, 1992), pp. 7-19. |
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