A stone slab inscription at Joga Dhusa Bāhāḥ in Lalitpur re the construction of the Śikharakūṭa Caitya (NS 965)

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Identifier: NHDP_0001_0008
Title: A stone slab inscription at Joga Dhusa Bāhāḥ in Lalitpur re the construction of the Śikharakūṭa Caitya (NS 965)
Type, original: Inscription; Original

Content

Abstract:

The inscription records the construction of the śikharakūṭa caitya (LAL0200-007) in 1765 CE by Lakṣmidhara Vajrācārya and his family eighty years before the Joga Dhusa Bāhāḥ was build in 1845.

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Date

Date: NS 965 Caitra (Caita) Dark fortnight 4 unspecified
Further details:
Converted: 1765

Script and language

Language, script: Newari,Hybrid-Sanskrit; Newari ; Pracalita

Physical appearance

Width, height, and unit: cm
No. of folios:
Material, binding, and colour: Stone ; unspecified; unspecified
Condition: Chips,Cracks; Around the edges of the stone tablet the surface is damaged and chipped off. In the center of the inscription there is an oval part of the surface chipped off.; Incomplete

Institution

Institution and reg. no.: Joga Dhusa Bāhāḥ, west of Dau Bāhāḥ, Lalitpur; 85.3222003661518, 27.674254798116003; unspecified
Source and details: DOI of image(s): https://doi.org/10.11588/heidicon/1243700; Photographed by NHDP as: LAL0200_I_001
Running no., exposures: 1

Project specific information

Created, modified, ID: 4/16/21, 12:00 AM; 4/21/21, 10:05 AM; 18
Notes:

DANAM catalogue entry: afd4d724-e1e0-4a1d-8f9f-cc0fe1d2d989

Type of writing support: Stone slab; The stone slab is enclosed in a niche on the right of the shrine.

Text legibility: Mostly legible; Apart from the edges and the center, the slab still has some small damages that occasionally render an akṣara unreadable.

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