Mora Well Inscription

Mora Well Inscription
Ancient Sanskrit inscription
Mathura GMM Q.1
WritingSanskrit[1]
Createdcirca 15 CE
Discovered27°30′54″N 77°35′15″E / 27.515040°N 77.587409°E / 27.515040; 77.587409
PlaceMathura, Uttar Pradesh
Present locationGovernment Museum, Mathura (27°29′43″N 77°40′46″E / 27.495382°N 77.679540°E / 27.495382; 77.679540)
IdentificationGMM Q.1
Mora (Mathura) is located in India
Mora (Mathura)
Mora (Mathura)
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Location of Mora, near Mathura
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The Mora inscription is associated with three statue remains and a decorated doorjamb, all thought to be related to the temple built for the Vrishni heroes.[2] Left: torso said to be probably a figure of one of the five Vrishni heroes, Mora, circa 15 CE, Art of Mathura, Mathura Museum.[3][4][5][6] Right: Mora carved doorjamb, also circa 15 CE, found together with the Mora Well Inscription.[7][8]

The Mora Well inscription is an ancient Sanskrit inscription found in the village of Mora about 7 miles (11 km) from Mathura, India.[9][10] It is notable for its early mention of pratima (images), stone temple, and the Pancaviras.[9][11]

  1. ^ Richard Salomon (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-0-19-509984-3.
  2. ^ Singh, Upinder (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century. Pearson Education India. p. 437. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0.
  3. ^ Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie (2007). History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE. BRILL. pp. 211–213. ISBN 978-90-04-15537-4.
  4. ^ "We have actually discovered in the excavations at the Mora shrine stone torsos representing the Vrishni Heroes (...) Their style closely follows that of the free-standing Yakshas in that they are carved in the round. They are dressed in a dhoti and uttaraya and some types of ornaments as found on the Yaksha figures, their right hand is held in ahbayamudra..." in "Agrawala, Vasudeva Sharana (1965). Indian Art: A history of Indian art from the earliest times up to the third century A.D. Prithivi Prakashan. p. 253.
  5. ^ This statue appears in Fig.51 as one of the statues excavated in the Mora mound, in Rosenfield, John M. (1967). The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans. University of California Press. p. 151-152 and Fig.51.
  6. ^ Lüders, H. (1937). Epigraphia Indica Vol.24. pp. 199-200.
  7. ^ Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie (2007). History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE. BRILL. p. 171. ISBN 9789004155374.
  8. ^ Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie (2007). History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE. BRILL. p. 206. ISBN 978-90-04-15537-4.
  9. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Srinivasan1997p211 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Heinrich Lüders and Klaus Ludwig Janert (1961), Mathurā inscriptions, Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, OCLC 717966622, page 154, image on page 301
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Quintanilla2007p260 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).