Khurā (کھوڑہ, Khushab District ضلع خوشاب, near Khatwai), Salt Range, Pakistan (Wikimapia)

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Khurā (کھوڑہ, Khushab District ضلع خوشاب, near Khatwai), Salt Range, Pakistan

Khurā stone inscription.

Metadata
Object ID OB00092
Title Khura Stone of Toramana
Subtitle
Inscription(s) IN00101
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Parent Object
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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:
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Place Khurā
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Found:
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Place Khurā
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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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