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Sārnāth (Uttar Pradesh). Standing Buddha dated year 154 with estampage drawn from ASIAR 1915-15 (Wikicommons).

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna, Bahadur Chand Chhabra, and Govind Swamirao Gai, Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1981): 322.

1) When a century of years, increased by fifty-four, of the Gupta (had passed away), on the second day of the month of Jyeṣṭha, when Kumāragupta was protecting the earth;

2) This unique image of the Teacher (Buddha), unparalleled through (his) merits, was caused to be made for worship by the monk Abhayamitra whose mind was subdued with devotion;

3) Through this spiritual merit, may this body of sentient beings, supplemented by (my) parents and preceptors, obtain the desired extinction (of worldly existence)….

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