Bodhgayā, Bihār. Moulding of the Mahānāman temple as documented 2013.
Bodhgaya, Bihār. Inscribed slab of Mahānāman. Cunningham archive, British Museum (detail of 1897,0528,0.16, also see 0.17). Original in the Indian Museum, Kolkata.
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| Object ID | OB00107 |
| Title | Bodhgaya Stela of Mahanaman |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00119 |
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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 / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stele |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 50 |
| Height | 45 |
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| Details | A slab that according to Fleet appears to have been set in a socket about 3 inches deep and mortised at the sides into a building, so it may not be a proper stela. The thickness of the slab and the finish of the back face are not reported. The inscription occupies the upper two thirds of the front; in the bottom left-hand corner there is an engraved outline figure of a cow nibbling at the foliage of a plant in the corner, and a calf below the cow's belly. |
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| Date | before 1886 |
| Place | Bodhgayā |
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| Date | 1888 |
| Place | Imperial Museum, Calcutta |
| Authority | Fleet, J. F. (1888). Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. |
| Details | Discovered by Cunningham and Beglar in their excavations at Bodhgaya, before 1886. |
| Notes | The slab does not belong to the main temple at Bodhgayā, but to a subsidiary shrine to the north, as shown by the notations on Cunningham's site plan (see Maps: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1245956). |