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Description: | Photograph of the monolithic inscribed pillar at Pathari, taken by Henry Cousens in c. 1892-94 and described in J.D. Beglar, Report of a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa, 1871-72... (A.S.I. vol VII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 67-68: "The monolithic pillar in the city...is a tall, round, plain, slightly-tapering shaft of white compact sandstone; the lower portion, for a height of 7 feet 9 1/2 inches, being a square of 2 feet 2 inches each way, with a slightly projecting panel, 2 feet 2 inches wide, on each side. On the northern panel is an inscription in late Gupta character, much worn by the weather...The capital consists of a disk, with rounded and corrugated edge, shaped like the central zone of an oblate spheroid, and is surmounted by a square abacus; the whole is surmounted by two human figures placed back to back, armed and bearing shields." | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Cousens, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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