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The inscription was first published by M. B. Garde in 1918-19. It was subsequently listed by Bhandarkar and M. Willis. [1] An edition with translation was published in Epigraphia Indica in 1941-42. [2] A second edition appeared in the revised edition of Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, volume 3, published in 1981. [3]
The Hathibada Ghosundi Inscriptions, ... Bhandarkar proposed that the three fragments suggest what the complete reading of fragment A might have been. His proposal was:
The inscription does not mention a year: it only states that it was issued on the occasion of a solar eclipse, on an amavasya (dark moon day) in the Chaitra month. In List of Inscriptions of North India edited by D. R. Bhandarkar, the inscription is dated to 17 March 1048 CE, but the text is silent on how this date was assigned. [32]
Gandhiji met Dr. Bhandarkar in 1896 at Pune, Bombay Presidency in regards to the South African Indian question. [2] As Superintending Archeologist of the Western Circle of ASI, he visited Mahenjodaro in 1911-12. He dismissed the ruins as only 200 years old, with 'bricks of a modern type' and 'a total lack of carved terra-cottas amidst the whole ...
Illustrations in the Antiquary were used by scholars such as Bhandarkar, Bhagvanlal Indraji, Georg Bühler, John Faithfull Fleet, Eggeling and B. Lewis Rice to decipher important inscriptions, [13] and in many cases their translations remain the definitive versions to this day. [11]
The Allahabad Pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE. While it is one of the few extant pillars that carry Ashokan edicts, [3] it is particularly notable for containing later inscriptions attributed to the Gupta emperor Samudragupta (4th century CE). [4]
During the Besnagar site excavations by archaeologists Lake and Bhandarkar, a number of additional inscriptions were found such as one in Vidisha. These also mention Vaishnava-related terms. In one of those inscriptions, is the mention of another Bhagavata installing a pillar of Garuda (vahana of Vishnu) at the "best temple of Bhagavat" after ...
The inscription and the image of Hanumān are frequently mentioned in the literature on Khajurāho. [2] The inscription was first noticed by Alexander Cunningham in the nineteenth century. [3] D. R. Bhandarkar revisited the inscription in 1904 and published a new reading, in addition to a fresh interpretation of the date. [4]