| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB00086 |
| Title | Mandasor Primary Pillar of Yasodharman |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00094 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00087 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | ~120 |
| Height | ~1350 |
| Depth | ~120 |
| Weight | |
| Details | A pillar composed of three monolithic components, one of which is broken into two fragments. Dimensions given here are the enclosing sizes for the assembled pillar. The main component (now in two fragments) is a base section square in cross-section (which would have been submerged in the ground), followed by a sixteen-sided shaft tapering toward the top. The inscription is on one of the fragments. Above this is a lotus bell capital topped by a square plinth on top of which some sculpture had originally stood, but this has not been recovered. The total height of the column from the top of the base (the presumed ground level) to the top of the lion capital is 12.2 metres. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Daśapura |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | 1879 |
| Place | Sondhnī |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Sondhnī |
| Authority | |
| Details | Discovered in 1879 by Arthur Sulivan who sent a report and an eye copy to Cunningham. In 1884 Fleet sent agents to explore the area and to obtain a rubbing. The pillar was lying in a field to the south of the hamlet of Sondhnī (24.041332, 75.091968), about 4 km southeast of Mandsaur. Upon discovery the pillar lay partly buried, with its head to the north. It is presently assembled and erected in situ. A large, roughly cut, rectangular slab has been excavated at the site and is presumed to have served as a foundation for the pillar placed below the base. An essentially identical column, OB00087, was found about 20 metres to the north. Fleet also found another large sandstone column about 45 metres west of the inscribed pair. This latter column is broken and its surface is carved into diamond shaped knobs. Fleet could not locate any other fragment of it and it seems to be unrelated to the inscribed columns. |
| Notes | OB00087, a similar column with a copy of the inscription, found about 20 metres to the north of this one. |