Nālandā, Bihār. Satellite view of archaeological site and adjacent areas (Wikimapia).
Nālandā, Bihār. Central stūpa.
Nālandā, Bihār. Copper-plate of Samudragupta.
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| Object ID | OB00003 |
| Title | Nalanda Plate of Samudragupta |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00003 |
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| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 27 |
| Height | 23 |
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| Weight | 525 |
| Details | A single copper plate inscribed on one side only. Found without an attached seal. |
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| Date | 1983 |
| Place | Indian Museum, Kolkata |
| Authority | Agrawala, P. K. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi, Books Asia. |
| Details | Found in 1927-28 at Nālandā, north verandah of Monastery Site 1 near the copper plate of Devapāla. May be genuine or an ancient forgery/copy. At some point of its discovery the plates were chemically treated to remove patina. Bhandarkar 1981: 224 says that according to Ghosh 1939-40 some portions had been more legible before this treatment. I see no such claim in Ghosh 1939-40; in any case, according to Bhandarkar 1981: 225, "the inscription had already suffered considerably in lines 4-6, and particularly in line 7 in the effacement of letters when it was examined, but after chemical treatment these lines, and especially line 7, developed actual perforations." |
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