prashasti
praśastiA formal Sanskrit eulogy or panegyric, often inscribed in brahmi or its descendants; the Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta is the classic example.
Where this term appears
- The Gupta Centuries: When Classical Hinduism Took Shape History
Onto it, around the middle of the fourth century, Samudragupta's court poet Harishena incised a Sanskrit prashasti , a formal eulogy, listing the king's conquests across the north and the south.
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
There is one class of source and one only: prashastis , praise-inscriptions, commissioned by the institution and by the kings who endowed it, composed in Sanskrit verse by named poets and cut into rock by named…
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
The place of composition has not been verified here. Upadhye's praśasti discussion in Part II would fix it.