Mankuwar Buddha Image Inscription of the Time of Kumaragupta I

The inscription is on the pedestal, one line along the top edge, another along the bottom edge. The height given here is for the two lines combined; the top line is about 2 cm tall, the bottom is 2.5 cm tall.

Object Reference

Mankuwar Buddha Image of the Time of Kumaragupta I

Object URI

OB00027

Inscription URI

IN00029

Basic Metadata

Extent

48 cm width x 4.5 cm height

Decoration

Between the two lines of text at the top and bottom of the pedestal, there is a carved wheel in the centre, "with a man seated in meditation on each side, and a lion at each corner" (#ASIR_10:6).

Language

Hybrid Sanskrit

Script

northern class, eastern Gupta closely resembling %IN00001

Script size

0.6-1.1

Reigning Monarch

Kumāragupta I

Date (min)

447

Date (max)

448

Date comments

Intrinsic Date: 129 jyeṣṭha 18 (era: Gupta). Basis of dating: intrinsic.

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An image of a seated Buddha, "very perfect … with a headdress like that now worn by the Abbots in Bhutân. It is a plain cap, fitting close to the head, with long lappets on each side. The figure is naked to the waist, and clad below in a dhoti which reaches to the ankles. The eyes are half closed, as if in meditation." (#ASIR_10:6). No dimensions reported.
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Originally found (according to #ASIR_10:7) in a brick mound, probably the site of a Buddhist monastery to the northeast of Maṅkuār, between five rocky hillocks called Pañc-pahāṛ. Moved from there to a garden belonging to the Gosāī of Deoriyā. Discovered in 1870 by Bhagwanlal Indraji (it is not clear whether Indraji found it in the mound or in the garden). #Goyal_1993:147 spells the name of the village मानकुंवर. It is said to be 14.5 km southwest of Arail in the Allahabad District of UP. Arail today seems to be a part of Allahabad, and there is a Manakwar at 25.299862, 81.810082, roughly at the right distance and in the right direction from there.
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Bibliography description

First noticed (with transliteration and hand-drawn transcript) in #ASIR_10:6-7. Re-published in #Indraji_1885:354. Critically edited in #Fleet_1888. Discussed in #Willis_2014.

Inscription Concordance

1273

1/III.20

IV. Mankuwār 1

147-149