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| Object ID | OB00123 |
| Title | Badva Yupa of Somadeva |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00136 |
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| Related Objects | OB00122 OB00124 |
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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 | yūpa |
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| Height | 404-478 |
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| Details | From a group of three extant pillars (OB00122, OB00123 and OB00124). The pillars were originally erected as two pairs; members of each pair are about 7.5 metres from one another, while the distance between the pairs is about 23 metres. It is not clear whether Altekar discovered the foundation of the lost fourth pillar, or if he merely thinks there were originally two pairs. Altekar does not specify which pillar bears which inscription. Two of the three largely intact pillars are octagonal in cross-section for the above-ground part and square for the underground base; the third is octagonal throughout. Two are 404 cm high in total, while a third is 478 cm high; the underground base is about 120 cm of the total length for each. Their surface is roughly finished. Each pillar has a square caṣāla (a protruding collar) about 20 cm below the top. Above the caṣāla the top of each bends "inwards to their proper right" (Altekar 1935-36: 43) where inwards probably means toward the paired column. |
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| Date | 1936 |
| Place | Baḍvā |
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| Authority | Altekar, Anant Sadashiv. (1935-36). Three Maukhari Inscriptions on Yupas: Krita Year 295, Epigraphia Indica, 23, pp. 42-52. |
| Details | Discovered by Altekar in 1936 in Baḍvā (25.154927, 76.296911), about 8 km to the southeast (Altekar, apparently in error: southwest) of Antah in the Kotah District of modern Rajasthan. The pillars were about 800 metres east of the village at a place known as thamb-toraṇ, probably for the archlike arrangement of the yūpas. Two pillars were lying flat on the ground, a third was inclined at an angle of 80°, and the remnants of a fourth (OB00125) were also found. Altekar 1935-36: 42n1 says that in or around 1936 the Kotah government was planning to move the pillars to Kotah. |
| Notes | Found with OB00122 and OB00124, of identical purpose and related inscription. |