The Badoh-Pathari Saptamātṛ Panel Inscription
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9893907 |
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| Authors | DÁNIEL BALOGH (0000-0003-4203-6776, 1 British Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 191-226 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indo-Iranian Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7246 • E-ISSN: 1572-8536 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15728536-06203001 |
| OpenAlex | W2965057864 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Located in Vidisha District, Madhya Pradesh, the area of Badoh-Pathari is home to a rock shelter with a sculpted panel depicting seven mother goddesses. A weathered inscription next to the sculptures was reported as early as 1926. The inscription is dateable to the fifth century on the basis of its palaeography and the art-historical dating of the site. Though partly effaced beyond hope of decipherment, roughly half of the text can be read with confidence, while some of the rest may be restored conjecturally, and some speculatively. The epigraph pays homage to Rudra and Skanda in addition to the Mothers themselves, and is thus a key resource concerning mātṛ worship in the Gupta period. It mentions the otherwise unknown local ruler Jayatsena of Avamukta (a region also named in the Allahabad pillar inscription), and may refer to the reign of Kumāragupta ( I )
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| Highly cited | No |
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