Gwalior (ग्वालियर). Stone of Mihirakula.
A stone slab with the left edge damaged. Part of its bottom side has also been cut away and lost after it was found but before it was delivered to the Indian Museum, Kolkata, possibly to adjust its size for fixing in some other building.
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| Object ID | OB00091 |
| Title | Gwalior Stone of Mihirakula |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00100 |
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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 / sandstone |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 82cm |
| Height | 14cm |
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| Details | Red sandstone. A stone slab with the left edge damaged. Part of its bottom side has also been cut away and lost after it was found but before it was delivered to the Calcutta museum, possibly to adjust its size for fixing in some other building. Dimensions above are for the extant fragment. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | circa 515 |
| Place | Gwalior |
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| Date | |
| Place | Gwalior |
| Other modern history | Photograph, probably taken in Calcutta, for Alexander Cunningham and given through A. W. Franks to the British Museum |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1929 |
| Place | Indian Museum, Kolkata |
| Authority | Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna. (1929). A List of the Inscriptions of Northern India in Brahmi and its derivative Scripts, from about 200 A. C. (Appendix to Epigraphia Indica volumes XIX to XXIII). Calcutta: University of Calcutta. |
| Details | Discovered built into the wall in the porch of the Sun temple at Surāj Kuṇḍ in Gwalior Fort. Subsequently delivered to the Imperial Museum at Calcutta. |
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