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39- Two Inscriptions of Kumara Gupta I. 
By RakHaLa Dasa BANDYOPADHYAYA. 
The inscriptions edited here are incised on different materials. 
The first inscription is incised on stone while the second has been 
incised on a thin plate of copper. 
A. INSCRIPTION ON A STONE Linea, Gupta SamvaT 117. 
The inscription is incised on the octagonal base of a linga, 
of greyish sandstone, which was discovered in the village of 
Bharadi Dih in the Fyzabad district. It is now deposited in the 
Lucknow Provincial Museum.! I came across the inscription 
while cataloguing the Archeological collections of the Lucknow 
Museum. A summary of the contents has already been 
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base of the linga and consists of eleven lines. The average 
length of each line is 1’ 6” or 0. m. 48, and the average height of 
the letters 1}” or 0. m. 04. The inscription refers itself to the 
reign of the Early Gupta King, Kumaragupta I, and the date, in 
words, is the year one hundred and seventeen (A. ay: 435-36) : the 
tenth day of the month of Karttika. The object of the inscrip- 
tion is to record the dedication of some object for the worship of 
the god Mahadeva, known by the name Prthivisvara, at the 
feet of the god SaileSvara. Saileévara is a well-known name of 
1 Annual Report of the Supe one 
thern Circle, 1907-8. <u. 2 Fleet’s Gupta Inscriptions, p. 100. 
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