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Originally Posted by wodin
... In Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar it is mentioned as a bordering country....
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Thanks very much, wodin, for the very informative post.
I'm adding a little more facts about the
Allahabad Pillar.
Spoiler:
Actually, the Allahabad Pillar is an Ashoka Stambha, one of the
Pillars of Ashoka, an emperor of the Maurya dynasty who reigned in the 3rd century BCE (
Born: August 304 BC, Died: 232 BC), he ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. While it is one of the few extant pillars that carry his edicts, it is particularly notable for
containing later inscriptions attributed to the Gupta emperor, Samudragupta (4th century CE). Also engraved on the stone are inscriptions by the Mughal emperor,
Jahangir, from the 17th century.
For further information on the well researched historical facts, I would suggest to have a look on
Corpus' Inscriptions Indicarum alias
The Inscriptions of Asoka, prepared by
Alexander Cunningham, and published in 1877 by the
Archaeological Survey of India and Royal Asiatic Society, Bengal. This document is available at google books for free.
The Ashoka Pillar at Allahabad in c. 1870 possibly sporting the lion capital fashioned by Captain Edward Smith in 1838, from an Album of
Miscellaneous views in India, taken by Thomas A. Rust in the 1870s
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Originally Posted by wodin
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