Gadhwa (गढ़वा किला, शंकरगढ़ Allahabad district). Satellite view (Wikimapia).
Gadhwa (Allahabad district). Associated relief sculptures of the Gupta period (Wikicommons).
| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB00053 |
| Title | Gadhwa Pillar Fragment 2 |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00058 IN00059 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00010 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | ~10 |
| Height | ~40 |
| Depth | ~17 |
| Weight | |
| Details | The stone was re-cut sometime after being engraved. It seems to have been a section of a square pillar split lengthwise into four. The present object is inscribed on both the faces that were originally on the outside of the pillar. Dimensions above are estimates based on the inscription campus data given in Fleet and Agrawala. ASIR 10: 10 describes the object as two fragments, which were apparently found together and may have been rejoined by restorers since then, hence they are treated as a single object here. The fracture appears as a horizontal line through line 8 of IN00058 and between lines 7 and 8 of IN00059. These fragments may or may not originate from the same column as OB00010; since no previous editor mentions the possibility in spite of the obvious relatedness of the inscriptions, there may be some trivial but unrecorded factor, such as a difference in the material, that precludes it. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Gadhwa |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | |
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| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| 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 (with many other Gupta-period fragments, none inscribed) between 1874 and 1877 by Cunningham in Gaḍhwā, after pulling down a ruined wall to the north of a mediaeval temple. |
| Notes | Possibly from the same pillar as OB00010. |