Bhitri (Saidpur, Uttar Pradesh). Satellite view (Wikimapia).
| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00062 |
| Title | Bhitari Pillar Fragment of the Time of Budhagupta |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00068 IN00069 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00062a OB00062b OB00062c |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 22.5 |
| Height | 17.8 |
| Depth | 4.3 |
| Weight | |
| Details | Probably a fragment of the rectangular section of a pillar, now itself in three fragments, found together and assembled. The present form is a squarish slab. The slab has one inscription (IN00068) covering the front face (of all three fragments), and another (IN00069) on the right-hand side (of the two right-hand fragments). Lines are entire in the front inscription, while on the side only the beginnings of lines remain. This suggests that the slab was cut (or has split) off the side of an original pillar of square cross-section. Agrawala 1983: 111 says the side inscription is "apparently in continuation of the last line of the first side", but I see nothing that might warrant (or exclude) this, so I edit the inscriptions as separate. One fragment of the slab comprises the (viewer's) left-hand side, a bit more than half of the slab. The smaller right-hand portion is broken again in two; the location of this horizontal fracture is not described by Agrawala, but may be between lines 2 and 3 of the front inscription (IN00068). |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Bhitari |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Bhitari |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1983 |
| Place | Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, BHU |
| Authority | Agrawala, P. K. (1983). Imperial Gupta Epigraphs (गुप्ताधिराजलेखमण्डल). Ancient Indian Epigraphical Sources (प्रत्नाभिलेखसंहिता) X.1. Varanasi, Books Asia. |
| Details | The three fragments were found (in the 1970s?) by K. K. Sinha during excavations in Bhītarī (at the site BTR 2), near Sayyidpur, Ghazipur district, UP. Now in Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, BHU. BTR-2 is the site of the pillar of Skandagupta and associated brick temple. |
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