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| Object ID | OB00021 |
| Title | Dhanaidaha Plate of Kumaragupta I |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00023 |
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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 | 13.3 |
| Height | 14 |
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| Details | A single copper plate the proper right half of which is lost. The dimensions above are those of the extant portion. The upper right corner of this was broken off and lost in the Calcutta Industrial Exhibition of 1906-07; this is reported to have contained the characters ma and ra which may have been part of the name of Kumāragupta (Bandyopadhyaya 1909: 459). Bandyopadhyaya also says he took photos of the plates in a less damaged state - no information on whether these photos are still around somewhere. |
| History | |
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| Place | Dhanaidaha |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 1980 |
| Place | Varendra Research Museum |
| Authority | Bhandarkar, D. R. (1981). Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume III: Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings (Revised Edition). Edited by Bahadur Chand Chhabra and Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. |
| Details | Found about 1906 in Dhanāidaha/Dhānaidah/धनैदह (spellings from Bhandarkar, Agrawala and Goyal), Nātore (नाटोर) sub-division of Rajshahi district in Bangladesh. |
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