Metadata

Support
Drumslab (?); h. 81 ×  w. 84 ×  d. 8 cm.
Text
Sanskrit language, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 3 ×  w. 12 cm .
Date
Attributable to the Ikṣvāku period on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Ghantasala.
Provenance
Possibly one of the slabs seen and printed at Ghantasala by Somasekhara Sarma 1974: 2 some years before 1974. Its estampage is now presumably lost. Identified at Ghantasala Museum (without an acc. no.) in February 2016.
Editors
Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
Publication history
Previously unpublished. Edited here from our photographs after autopsy of the stone.

Edition

(1) sumanaśila

(1) sumanaśila 
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					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok5052">sumanaśila</w>
				        </ab>

Translation

Sumanaśila.