Manukuwar (Allahabad, UP). Satellite view (Wikimapia).
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| Object ID | OB00027 |
| Title | Mankuwar Buddha Image of the Time of Kumaragupta I |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00029 |
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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 | Sculpture |
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| Details | An image of a seated Buddha, "very perfect … with a headdress like that now worn by the Abbots in Bhutân. It is a plain cap, fitting close to the head, with long lappets on each side. The figure is naked to the waist, and clad below in a dhoti which reaches to the ankles. The eyes are half closed, as if in meditation." (ASIR 10: 6). No dimensions reported. |
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| Place | Mankuwar |
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| 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 | Originally found (according to ASIR 10: 7) in a brick mound, probably the site of a Buddhist monastery to the northeast of Maṅkuār, between five rocky hillocks called Pañc-pahāṛ. Moved from there to a garden belonging to the Gosāī of Deoriyā. Discovered in 1870 by Bhagwanlal Indraji (it is not clear whether Indraji found it in the mound or in the garden). Goyal 1993: 147 spells the name of the village मानकुंवर. It is said to be 14.5 km southwest of Arail in the Allahabad District of UP. Arail today seems to be a part of Allahabad, and there is a Manakwar at 25.299862, 81.810082, roughly at the right distance and in the right direction from there. |
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