{"other_images":[{"link_to_zenodo":"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.2668956","title":"Eran (Madhya Pradesh). Hero-stone of Gopar\u0101ja. "}],"metadata_object_id":"OB00045","metadata_title":"Eran Pillar of Goparaja","metadata_subtitle":"","metadata_inscriptions":[{"ID":471,"post_author":"5","post_date":"2018-12-14 14:38:25","post_date_gmt":"2018-12-14 14:38:25","post_content":"Eran Pillar Inscription of Gopar\u0101ja mentioning Bh\u0101nugupta.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1963\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1963\" src=\"https:\/\/siddham.network\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Eran-inscription-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> Eran (Madhya Pradesh). Hero-stone of Gopar\u0101ja, detail of inscription[\/caption]","post_title":"IN00050 Eran Pillar Inscription of Goparaja","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in00050","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-09-05 13:22:53","post_modified_gmt":"2019-09-05 13:22:53","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/siddham.network\/?post_type=inscription&#038;p=471","menu_order":0,"post_type":"inscription","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"metadata_child_object":false,"metadata_parent_object":false,"metadata_related_objects":false,"responsibility_author":false,"responsibility_metadata_recorded_by":{"term_id":4,"name":"D\u00e1niel Balogh","slug":"daniel-balogh","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"people","description":"","parent":0,"count":745,"filter":"raw"},"responsibility_authority_for_metadata":"","responsibility_metadata_improved_by":{"term_id":4,"name":"D\u00e1niel Balogh","slug":"daniel-balogh","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"people","description":"","parent":0,"count":745,"filter":"raw"},"responsibility_authoriy_for_improved":"","basic_material":{"term_id":7,"name":"Stone \/ sandstone","slug":"stone-sandstone","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"material","description":"","parent":0,"count":343,"filter":"raw"},"basic_object_type":{"term_id":16,"name":"Pillar","slug":"pillar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"object_type","description":"","parent":0,"count":72,"filter":"raw"},"basic_dimensions_width":"45","basic_dimensions_height":"175","basic_dimensions_depth":"45","basic_dimensions_weight":"","basic_details":"The top part of a pillar, converted into a \u015aivali\u1e45ga. In addition to IN00050, the pillar also bears an inscription of \u015ar\u012bdharavarman, presently not in the corpus (Mirashi 1955: 605-611), and an illegible inscription near the top (Mirashi 1955: 608), possibly defaced when the pillar was turned into a li\u1e45ga. The lower section of the extant column is octagonal, then sixteen-sided, then octagonal again. A compartment above the centre of Gopar\u0101ja's inscription features a seated man and woman who are presumably Gopar\u0101ja and his wife. Three compartments (two of which are above two of the faces occupied by \u015ar\u012bdharavarman's inscription) bear reliefs of horsemen. Above this, the pillar is sixteen-sided once again, then octagonal again. Further up, it is again sixteen-sided and fluted or ribbed, curving into a round top (which according to ASIR 10: 89 was reshaped when the pillar was turned into a li\u1e45ga.) The part outside the li\u1e45ga base is 76 cm tall, but no separate lengths are available for the various sections.","history_created_date":"","history_created_place":{"term_id":2794,"name":"Airiki\u1e47a","slug":"airiki%e1%b9%87a","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2794,"taxonomy":"palce","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},"history_other_ancient_history":"","history_found_date":"","history_found_place":false,"history_other_modern_history":"","history_latest_date":"","history_latest_place":{"term_id":10,"name":"In situ","slug":"in-situ","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"palce","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw"},"history_latest_authority":"","history_details":"Discovered in 1874-75 or 76-77 by Cunningham. It was found under some small trees near the left bank of the B\u012bn\u0101, about 800 metres southeast of Era\u1e47, halfway between Era\u1e47 and the village of Pehelejpur. The bottom part of the original pillar is lost; the extant top portion has been fashioned into a li\u1e45ga. It was probably broken naturally (perhaps after falling), as its bottom is rough. It was fitted into a pedestal, which was broken open in the 19th century to reveal Gopar\u0101ja's inscription, most of which had been hidden by the pedestal. A new, shallower pedestal was then made for it, and was in turn removed in the 1950s, revealing \u015ar\u012bdharavarman's inscription which had been completely obscured before this time.","history_notes":"","doi":"10.5281\/zenodo.3347381","maps":[{"title":"Coordinates:  24\u00b05'10\"N 78\u00b010'35\"E","link_to_zenodo":""},{"title":"SURVEY of INDIA topo sheet 54L4 1992 2nd edition, detail.","link_to_zenodo":"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.2578783"},{"title":"ERAN, from Alexander Cunningham ASIR 1880 ","link_to_zenodo":"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Eran_archaeological_site_map,_1880_sketch.jpg"}],"grants":"European Commission: DHARMA - The Domestication of \u201cHindu\u201d Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia (809994); European Commission: ASIA - Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State (609823)","has_part":"","documented_by":"","referenced_by":"","uploaded_by":"","data_collectors":"Peter Bisschop","data_curators":"","data_managers":"Vafa Movahedian; Katherine Gazzard","sections":false}