| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00069 |
| Title | Gangdhar Stela of the Time of Visvavarman |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00076 |
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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 / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stele |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 72 |
| Height | 200 |
| Depth | 27 |
| Weight | |
| Details | Described as a tablet by Fleet, who probably only had access to a rubbing. The object appears to be a stela, basically rectangular in shape, with the top rounded into a circle (approximately 65 cm in diameter); the rectangular part is about 135 cm long and the neck where this joins the circular part is about 37 cm wide. The circular part is carved into a wheel of 16 spokes or, possibly, a lotus of 16 petals. Fleet believed this was a 16-leaved waterlily; the petals (or spokes) look like waterlily petals, but the centre (or the hub of the wheel) looks like the centre of a lotus. The longer (vertical) sides of the rectangular part are cut at an angle at both the front and the back, so this part is an elongated octagon in cross-section. The bottom is roughly worked and would have been hidden in a foundation. No description of the back side is available and it was not possible to lift the stone when it was examined in 2017. The fact that the sides are bevelled at the back just as they are at the front suggests that the stone would have been viewable from both sides as it was originally installed. The left edge and the top left and right corners of the inscribed area are chipped off. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Gaṅgdhār |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 2017 |
| Place | Jhalawar Museum |
| Authority | Autopsy, Dániel Balogh, January 2017 |
| Details | Brought to Fleet's notice in 1883 by Colonel W. Muir in Gaṅgdhār (23.941926, 75.620615, now in Kota District, Rajasthan, shown on Google Maps as Gangadhar, 56 km east of Mandsaur). The stela was under a tamarind tree about 1.6 km north of the village, on the site of an old ruined temple. It was moved to Jhalawar Museum on 18 March 1917 according to the Museum's records, but according to PRAS-W 1906: 56 it was removed from its original location in 1905-06, possibly to Jhalrapatan. Presently in storage at Jhalawar Museum (acquisition number 63). |
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