Allāhābād الله آباد (Uttar Pradesh). Central area of city, showing location of pillar (© Survey of India).
Allāhābād (इलाहाबाद, Uttar Pradesh). General view of the fort.
Allāhābād Fort (इलाहाबाद किला). Monolithic pillar with Samudragupta’s praśasti, two inscriptions by Aśoka as well as subsequent inscriptions, some of which are written between and over the lines of Samudragupta’s inscription. Courtesy Zenodo.
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB00001 |
| Title | Allahabad Pillar |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00001 |
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| Parent Object | |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | J. F. Fleet |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 66-97 |
| Height | 1070 |
| Depth | 66-97 |
| Weight | |
| Details | A round, monolithic sandstone column. Beside Samudragupta's praśasti, it also bears two inscriptions by Aśoka as well as a number of mediaeval inscriptions, some of which are written between and over the lines of Samudragupta's inscription. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | 3rd century BCE |
| Place | Kauśāmbī |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Allahābād |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1983 |
| Place | Allahābād |
| Authority | Agrawala, P. K. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi, Books Asia. |
| Details | The pillar was found, and still remains, in Allahabad fort. It was possibly moved here from Kauśāmbī by Firoz Śāh or another early Delhi Sultan. |
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