| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00088 |
| Title | Mandasor Stone of Yasodharman's Ministerial Family |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00097 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / slate |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 58 |
| Height | 47 |
| Depth | 6.5 |
| Weight | |
| Details | A smooth stone tablet. The back is divided into two sections by what seems (to Fleet 1888: 150) to be either a spear with a curved handle, or a shepherd's crook. (Can this be a representation of a yūpa?) On each side, engraved in rough outline, there is a man on horseback facing the divider in the centre. The one on the proper right carries in his left hand a cāmara or a śaṅkha and there is a representation of the sun above him in the corner. The one on the proper left carries an indistinguishable object in his left hand and has an image of the moon above him in the corner. Fleet is certain that these images were engraved after the tablet was built into the well wall with the inscription facing inward. The awkward execution and unfinished look of the carving is definitely unlike the smooth elegance of the inscription. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Daśapura |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Mandsaur |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 2017 |
| Place | National Museum, New Delhi |
| Authority | Autopsy, Dániel Balogh, February 2017 |
| Details | The tablet was found in an old well somewhere in the vicinity of Mandsaur. It was discovered in the course of repairs to the well, into which it had been built with the inscribed surface inward. Fleet believes this would have been the large and ancient well just inside the eastern entrance of the Fort there. In 1885 it was in the possession of Sir Michael Filose. The stone's subsequent history is not clear, but according to IAR 1965-66: 101 (No. 36) it was acquired by the National Museum of New Delhi in 1965-66, where it is now held (accession number: 66-1-551). Its record is available online at http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/nat_del-66-1-551 (last accessed October 2016). A 19th-century rubbing of the stone is held at the British Museum (item number 1880,0.3492); online record: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1350023&partId=1 |
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