Mathurā (Uttar Pradesh). Central part of city showing Mathurā Museum and location of the Rangeshwar temple where the pillar was found (Wikimapia).
Inscribed pillar of year 61, Mathura Museum No. 29.1931 (Wikicommons).
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| Object ID | OB00008 |
| Title | Mathura Lakulisa Pilaster |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00008 |
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| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Pilaster |
| Dimensions: | |
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| Height | 132 |
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| Details | The top and bottom sections are four-faced, while the middle is octagonal. One face of the top and bottom and five faces of the middle are well dressed, the rest are rough, hence Bhandarkar's reasonable assumption that it was a pilaster built into a wall rather than a free-standing pillar. The dressed side of the top bears a sculpted trident, and that of the bottom has a standing figure of a corpulent nude male (about 30 cm tall), probably Lakulīśa. |
| History | |
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| Place | Mathurā |
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| Date | |
| Place | Mathura Museum |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 1983 |
| Place | Mathura Museum |
| Authority | Agrawala, P. K. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi, Books Asia. |
| Details | Discovered in July 1928 by a dealer (illicit?) in antiquities, attached to a well in Cāṇḍūl-Māṇḍūl Bagīcī near the Raṅgeśvar Mahādev temple of Mathurā. He took it to his place, from where the police took it to a godown. The temple is located at Coordinates: 27°29'45"N 77°41'7"E. |
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