| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB00087 |
| Title | Mandasor Secondary Pillar of Yasodharman |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00095 IN00096 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00086 |
| 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 | ~815 |
| Depth | ~120 |
| Weight | |
| Details | A pillar composed of three monolithic components: a base, a shaft and a capital. Dimensions given above are for the assembled parts; the total height of the original column would have been about 1350 centimetres, like its pair (OB00086). The base is square in cross-section and would have been submerged in the ground. The shaft is sixteen-sided and tapers toward the top. The bottom of the shaft is attached to the base. The rest of the shaft now in three fragments with some missing pieces; it was purposely cut, as evidenced by chisel and wedge marks. The top and a lower part of the shaft are extant; the upper part is missing. The extant lower part has been split lengthwise into two approximately equal halves. A block about 45 centimetres high (which carried much of the inscription) has been removed from one of the halves and is now missing. The missing parts of the shaft were presumably carried away in pre-modern times to serve some other purpose. The capital 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 graffito IN00096 is engraved on the upper border of one side of this plinth. |
| 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 partially assembled and erected in situ, with the upper fragment of the shaft, the bell capital and the lion plinth laid on the ground separately nearby. 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, OB00086, was found about 20 metres to the south. 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 | OB00086, a similar column with a copy of the inscription, found about 20 metres to the south of this one. |