Editing Vasudeva I (section)

==Statuary==
[[File:Inscription Maharaja Devaputra Vasudeva Year 93.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Buddha statue of Vasudeva I]], pedestal inscription: "In the 93rd year" (𑀲𑀁𑁣𑁔) of "Great King, son of God, Vasudeva" ([[File:Gupta_ashoka_m.svg|12px]][[File:Gupta_ashoka_h.svg|12px]][[File:Gupta_allahabad_raa.jpg|10px]][[File:Gupta_ashoka_j.svg|12px]]<sub>[[File:Gupta_ashoka_sya.svg|18px]]</sub> [[File:Gupta_ashoka_d.svg|12px]][[File:Gupta_ashoka_v.svg|12px]]<sub>[[File:Gupta ashoka pu.jpg|12px]][[File:Gupta ashoka tr.jpg|12px]][[File:Gupta_ashoka_sya.svg|18px]]</sub> [[File:Gupta allahabad vaa.jpg|11px]][[File:Gupta allahabad su.jpg|14px]][[File:Gupta ashoka de.svg|12px]][[File:Gupta_ashoka_v.svg|12px]] ''Mahārājasya Devaputrasya Vāsudeva'', from the start of the first line). [[Mathura Museum]]. [https://vmis.in/ArchiveCategories/collection_gallery_zoom?id=1335&search=1&index=161976&searchstring=maharaja Photograph of the pedestal].]]
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The relatively peaceful reign of Vasudeva is marked by an important artistic production, in particular in the area of statuary.<ref name="KR202"/> Several Buddhist statues are dated to the reign of Vasudeva, and are important markers for the chronology of [[Buddhist art]].<ref name="PC"/>

An inscription on the base of the [[Buddha statue of Vasudeva I]] is also known from the [[Mathura Museum]]: "In the 93rd year of Maharaja Devaputra Vasudeva...", probably corresponding to {{Circa|171 CE}}, or 220 CE with the more recent definition of the Kanishka era as starting in 127 CE.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sharma |first1=R.C. |title=The Splendour of Mathura Art and Museum |date=1994 |publisher=D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd. |page=140 |url=https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/splendour-of-mathura-art-and-museum-IDD114/}}</ref> A [[:File:Sakyamuni_statue_of_the_Year_94.jpg|partially preserved Sakyamuni statue]], also from Mathura, has the date "Year 94", although without mentioning Vasudeva specifically.<ref>{{cite book |title=Indian Archaeology, 1994-1995 |page=100, Plate XLVI |url=http://nmma.nic.in/nmma/nmma_doc/Indian%20Archaeology%20Review/Indian%20Archaeology%201994-95%20A%20Review.pdf}}</ref>

Dedications in the name of Vasudeva, with dates, also appear on Jain statuary discovered in Mathura.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Jas |title=Epigraphia Indica Vol.-i |page=392 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121005/page/n417/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dowson |first1=J. |last2=Cunningham |first2=A. |title=Ancient Inscriptions from Mathura |journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1871 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=194 |jstor=44012780 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44012780 |issn=0035-869X}}</ref>

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Hashtnagar Buddha Year 384 original body only.jpg|[[Hashtnagar]] Buddha, inscribed with "year 384" (probably of the [[Yavana era]]), hence 209 CE.<ref name="PC">{{cite book|last1=Rhi|first1=Juhyung|title=Problems of Chronology in Gandharan. Positioning Gandharan Buddhas in Chronology|date=2017|publisher=Archaeopress Archaeology|location=Oxford|pages=35–51|url=http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/PublicFiles/media/Final%20e-version%20Problems%20of%20Chronology%20in%20Gandharan%20Art.pdf}}{{free access}}</ref>
Hashtnagar Buddha piedestal Year 384.jpg|Pedestal of the [[Hashtnagar]] Buddha statue, now in the [[British Museum]], inscribed with "year 384" (probably of the [[Yavana era]]), hence 209 CE.<ref name="PC"/> The inscription reads in the [[Kharoshthi script]]: ''sam 1 1 1 100 20 20 20 20 4 Prothavadasa masasa divasammi pamcami 4 1'' ("In the year 384, on the fifth, 5, day of the month Prausthapada").<ref>Problems of Chronology in Gandharan Art [http://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/PublicFiles/media/Final%20e-version%20Problems%20of%20Chronology%20in%20Gandharan%20Art.pdf p.37]</ref> The pedestal was sawed off from the body of the statue by L. White King in 1883 and brought to the British Museum.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Errington|first1=Elizabeth|title=Numismatic evidence for dating the Buddhist remains of Gandhara|page=204|url=https://www.academia.edu/3676180|language=en}}</ref> [[British Museum]]
Mamane Dheri sculpture Year 89.jpg|Mamane Dheri Buddha, inscribed with "Year 89" (probably of the [[Kanishka]] era), hence 216 CE.<ref name="PC"/> [[Peshawar Museum]].
File:Sakyamuni statue of the Year 94.jpg|Sakyamuni statue of the "Year 94" (221 CE). [[Mathura Museum]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Archaeology, 1994-1995|page=100, Plate XLVI|url=http://nmma.nic.in/nmma/nmma_doc/Indian%20Archaeology%20Review/Indian%20Archaeology%201994-95%20A%20Review.pdf}}</ref>
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