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| Object ID | OBCH0004 |
| Title | Bodhgayā, Bihār. Chinese Inscription dated in the second year of 明道 Míngdào (CE 1033) of the Song emperor 真宗 Zhēnzōng |
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| Inscription(s) | INCH0004 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | H. A. Giles |
| Metadata recorded by | Michael WILLIS |
| Authority for metadata | Cunningham (1892) |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Stele |
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| Details | Layout not recorded. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | 1033 |
| Place | Bodhgayā |
| Other ancient history | Commissioned by a monk visiting from China. |
| Found: | |
| Date | circa 1880 |
| Place | Bodhgayā |
| Other modern history | Found by Cunningham "concealed under numerous coats of whitewash in the wall of one of the buildings of the merchant's [sic] residence," Cunningham, Mahabodhi, p. 72; he gives the same information ibid., p. 68. The slab is broken diagonally at the bottom, and lower part does not seem to have been recovered. |
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| Date | 1033 |
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| Details | The inscription does not seem to be among those removed to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and is not listed in: Anderson, Catalogue and Handbook of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum, Part II (Calcutta, 1880) (for which see http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1245535). |
| Notes | Photograph made of the rubbing for Alexander Cunningham and then acquired by A. W. Franks who bequeathed it to the British Museum. |