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Content Provider | Indian Culture |
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Spatial Coverage | Nalanda, Bihar, India |
Temporal Coverage | 516-517 Century CE |
Description | An inscribed brick from Nalanda gives the text of the Nidhana Sutra or the Pratitya Samutpada Sutra together with the Nirodha portion called the acharya and the apachaya of dharma. It was found in 1936-37 from the core of a votive stupa attached to the main stupa of Nalanda originally found in pieces; it has now been pieced together and contains 15 lines of writing with the upper right portion lost. The characters were engraved with a stylus when the brick was wet and are in a cursive style. They belong to the Gupta script of a comparatively late period or the transition period to the acute-angled stage and may be ascribed to the 6th Cent. AD. It is dated Magha 25 in the year 197 i.e. AD. 516- 517 as the era used appears in the Gupta era. This is inscription helps in precisely dating at least one successive addition to the main stupa at Nalanda i. e. ascribing the fifth addition to the stupa to circa 5th Cent. AD. The text on this brick is the same as found in the Kasia copper plate ARASI 1910-11 pp. 76ff. and the inscribed brick from Gopalpur in the Gorakhpur U.P. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Publisher | National Museum |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Epigraphy Brick Inscription |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |
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