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Sārnāth (Uttar Pradesh). Standing Buddha dated year 157 in the reign of Budhagupta after ASIR 1914-15 (Wikicommons).

 

 

Bhandarkar, Devadatta Ramakrishna, Bahadur Chand Chhabra, and Govind Swamirao Gai, Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1981): 334.

(Translation 1 and 2)

Verse 1) When a century of years, increased by fifty-seven of the Guptas had passed away, when Budhagupta was ruling the earth;

Verse 2) On the seventh of the month of Vaiśākha, when (the asterism) Mūla was visible in the sky, the image was caused to be made by me, Abhayamitra, a Buddhist monk.

Verses 3-4) Having caused to be made this wonderful image of (Buddha) accompanied by Devaputras, decorated with hands upraised, exquisite umbrella and lotus throne, (and) painted with a layer of painting—whatever spiritual merit accrues, may it be for the attainment of the extinction (of worldly existence) by (my) parents and preceptors and of mankind!

 

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