Karamdaṇḍ (करमदण्ड Faizabad district) liṅga engraved with an inscription of the time of Kumāragupta I (Kern Institute).
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| Object ID | OB00023 |
| Title | Karamdanda Linga of the Time of Kumaragupta I |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00025 |
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| Metadata recorded by | Michael WILLIS |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | liṅga |
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| Height | 86 |
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| Details | The shaft of the liṅga is circular, 33 cm tall with a diameter of 27.5 cm. The base is octagonal and 53 cm tall; no diameter or width/depth figures are available. |
| History | |
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| Place | Karamḍāṃḍā |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 1983 |
| Place | State Museum, Lakhnau |
| Authority | Agrawala, P. K. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi, Books Asia. |
| Details | Excavated from a mound called Bharāḍhī Ḍīh (editors vary in adding or omitting udnerdots; I adopt the spelling used by Goyal 1993: 162 in Devanagari) near the village of Karamdāṇḍā, Faizabad. |
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