Sanchi Pillar Inscription of the 5th Century

Author of digital edition: Dániel Balogh (daba).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: SIDDHAM (siddham).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSiddham00121.

File path: XML-Provisional/DHARMA_INSSiddham00121.xml.

Version: 2026-09-16 09:24 (c200993), last modified 2026-09-16 09:24 (c200993).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (aka?)[*] vihārasvāmi-gośūra-siṁhabala-puttra-rudra [**] (s)ya vajrapāṇi-stambhaḥ toraṇa-stambha-dvayaṁ vih(ā)re maṇḍapaḥ pratolī ca

Bibliography

First noticed, with transcript and lithograph (Plate 21 No. 199) in Cunningham 1854, p. 199 (No. 36). Edited in Fleet 1888. Described in Trivedi & Trivedi 2001, p. 5 (No. 7).

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (2019, № IN00121). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

Secondary

Fleet, John Faithfull. 1888. Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors. First edition. Vol. 3. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Item 73.

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