Karamdanda liṅga inscription of the time of Kumāragupta I.
1-4) Obeisance to Mahādeva. In the victorious reign of the mahārājādhirāja, the prosperous Kumāragupta, whose fame was tasted by the waters of the four oceans (and) who meditated on the feet of the mahārājādhirāja, the prosperous Candragupta, when a century of years increased by seventeen (had elapsed), on the tenth day of the month of Kārttika.
4-11) When this was the specification of the date, Pṛthivīśeṇa, who was (at first) mantri-kumārāmātya (and) afterwards the mahābalādhikṛta of the prosperous Kumāragupta the mahārājādhirāja, and who was son of Śikharasvāmin, mantri- kumārāmātya of the prosperous Candragupta (II), the mahārājādhirāja, and son of Viṣṇupālitabhaṭṭa who, (in turn) was son of Kuramaraṇyabhaṭṭa, a teacher of the Chandoga and of the Aśvavājin gotra (placed) at the feet of Śaileśvarasvāmin Mahādeva, for the worship of the feet of this same Lord Mahādeva, known as Pṛthivīśvara, with proper religious rites to (Brāhmaṇas) from Ayodhyā, of different gotras and charaṇas (and) conversant with penances, recitation of sacred texts, the mantras, the sūtras, the bhāṣyas and pravacanas …. at the procession of the image….