The Ganj stone inscription was located in 1919 by Rakhaladas Banerji. The inscription is inscribed on a loose slab lying close to the ruins of a structure which could possibly be a dam at the village of Ganj. The inscription is identical to the one found earlier at Nachnā-kī-talāi (IN00199). The inscription records the meritorious action of Vyāghradeva who is described in the inscription as meditating upon the feet of Pṛthivīṣeṇa. It is not been definitively proven whether the inscriptions refer to Pṛthivīṣeṇa I or Pṛthivīṣeṇa II. It is assumed that Vyāghradeva was a feudatory or officer under the Pṛthivīṣeṇa mentioned in the inscription.
| Metadata | |
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| Inscription ID | IN00200 |
| Title | Ganj Inscription of Vyaghradeva |
| Alternative titles | |
| Parent Object | OB00186 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00198 IN00199 |
| 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 |
| Reigning monarch | Pṛthivīṣeṇa I or Pṛthivīṣeṇa II |
| Commissioner | |
| Topic | records the meritorious action of Vyāghradeva who is described in the inscription as meditating upon the feet of Pṛthivīṣeṇa |
| Date: | |
| Min | 350 |
| Max | 499 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: palaeography, conjecture. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 5 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
| Layout | |
| Campus: | |
| Width | 63 |
| Height | 30 |
| Description | Three irregular lines, fairly well preserved. Character size is an estimate. |
| Decoration | An eight-spoked wheel is carved near the centre of the top of the inscription, its bottom occupying the width of about 4 characters in line 1. Below the wheel there is a sinuous line, resembling a recurved bow with a concave apex below the centre of the wheel. This line is not mentioned in reports and it is not clear from the rubbing if it is an engraving or a fracture. It is asymmetrical, but still seems too regular for a crack. Whatever it is, it had certainly been there before the inscription was engraved, and line 2 curves awkwardly to accommodate it. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | First reported (by R. D. Banerji) in PRAS-W 1920: 45 (No. 5). Edited in Sukthankar 1923-24. Discussed in Shastri 1997: 5-6 and 55-65. Further references to discussions in Mirashi 1963: 89. See also Dikshit 1923-24, Ramdas 1926-27 and Dubreiul 1927-28. |
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| Misc notes | IN00198 and IN00199 are an incomplete and a complete version of the same inscription on another stone found nearby. |