Dear Csaba,

If you search in Google Maps for Bhitari Monuments and Historical Places, two of the eight photographs there, dated May and June 2018, show that the pillar was still ‘in situ’.

Best wishes,

Elliot Stern
emstern1948@gmail.com

On 05 Nov  2018, at 13:12, Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Csaba,

You must be aware that the database produced by Michael Willis' project at <http://siddham.uk/object/OB00032> states the pillar to be 'in situ', and dates this information to 1983. As far as I understand the Siddham database, this information must be based on Agarwala 1983, who is not necessarily a reliable source on such issues. (I don't have the work at hand.) Has no-one in Michael Willis' team undertaken fieldwork at Bhitari?

The fact that you have to ask this question on this forum illustrates the very general problem confronted by epigraphists today, namely that previous generations or scholars and institutions in charge of inscriptions have on the whole shown very little interest in reliably recording the whereabouts of inscriptions, once 2-dimensional reproductions had been published. 

If the pillar has been lost, it would not be the only instance of a massive inscribed pillar that appears to have vanished. For another example, and one that concerns a relatively recent discovery, see <http://hisoma.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/EIAD/works/EIAD0164.xml?&odd=teipublisher.odd>.

Warm greetings,

Arlo



From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Csaba Dezso via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:36 PM
To: Indology
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Bhitari Pillar
 
Dear Colleagues,
Does anyone happen to know where the Bhitari Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta is kept these days?
Many thanks for any info,
Csaba Dezső




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Senior Lecturer
Department of Indian Studies
Eötvös Loránd University
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Hungary
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