The top and bottom sections are four-faced, while the middle is octagonal. One face of the top and bottom and five faces of the middle are well dressed, the rest are rough, hence Bhandarkar's reasonable assumption that it was a pilaster built into a wall rather than a free-standing pillar.
- Event TypeCreatedPlaceMathurā
- Event TypeRecordedPlaceCāṇḍūl-Māṇḍūl BagīcDate1928
- Event TypeStoredPlaceVidisha MuseumDate1983
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The inscription is on the five dressed faces of the central section of the pilaster, readable in horizontal lines across faces (with 3-4 akṣaras on each face) rather than as separate columns. The third of the five faces is badly abraded. Bhandarkar (1981:234-235) theorises that the pilaster was already built in (perhaps into the shrine mentioned in the inscription) when the text was incised, and he takes the end of the inscription to be the first half of an āryā verse, for the second half of which there was no room available.