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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum by John Faithfull Fleet, Vol. 3, 1888, pages 65-68, Pate IX.
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KAHAUM STONE PILLAR INSCRIPTTION OF SKANDAGUPTA THE YEAR 141
This inscription appears to have been discovered by Dr. Francis Buchanan (Hamilton), -whose Survey of the Provinces, subject to the Presidency of Bengal, was commenced in 1807 and was continued during seven years, and whose manuscript results were transmitted in 1816 to the Court of Directors of the East India Company,-and to have been first brought to notice in his reports, from which Mr. Montgomery Martin compiled, and in 1838 published, the book entitled Eastern India, in which the inscription is noticed in Vol. II, p.366 f., with a reduced lithograph (id. Plate v. No.2)In the same year, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. VII. p.37 f., Mr. James Prinsep published his reading of the text, and a translation of it', accompanied by a lithograph (id. Plate i) reduced from a copy made by Mr. D. Liston.- In 1860, in the Jour. Amer. Or. Soc. Vol. VI. p.530, Dr. Fitz Edward Hall published his reading of the first verse of the inscription, and a translation, which was subsequently revised and reprinted in the Jour Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XXX. p.3, note - In 1871, in the Archaeol. Survey. Ind. Vol. I., p. 93 f. and Plate xxx., General Cunningham published another lithograph, reduced from his own ink-impression. And finally, in 1881, in the Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 125 f., Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji published his revised reading of the text, and a translation of it, accompanied by a lithograph reduced from an impression made by him when he visited Kahâum in 1873.
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