Khurā (کھوڑہ, Khushab District ضلع خوشاب, near Khatwai), Salt Range, Pakistan (Wikimapia)
Khurā (کھوڑہ, Khushab District ضلع خوشاب, near Khatwai), Salt Range, Pakistan
Khurā stone inscription.
| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00092 |
| Title | Khura Stone of Toramana |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00101 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Bühler, G. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | Michael WILLIS |
| Authoriy for improved | Bakker, The Alchon (2020), chapter 4. |
| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 71 |
| Height | 51 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | |
| Details | A sandstone slab without decoration. The bottom 15 cm of the surface is not inscribed. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Khurā |
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| Found: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Khurā |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1929 |
| Place | Lahore Museum |
| 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 | Found at or near Khurā (sometimes Kurā, Khoora, Khurah, كهُوڑه) in the Salt Range (Pakistan). Salomon 1989: 32 says Kurā is in Sargodha District. For the latest location, Bhandarkar appears to be citing Bühler 1892; he probably did not verify the location. Bühler published the record on the basis of an inked impression supplied to him by J. Burgess. Bühler reports the inscription is in the Lahore Museum (see EI 1, 238) and gives no further information about the provenance. As noted by H. T. Bakker in The Alchon: A Hunnic People In South Asia (Groningen, 2019), chapter 4, n.3, citing Jason Neelis (2011, 164, n. 314), the inscription comes from a place called Kutte Mār at Khurā, 6 km north-east of Khatwai (Coordinates: 32°29'10"N 72°11'36"E). See CONCORDANCE (under inscription entry) for references. |
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