L. 1 Success …………………… Salutations to one Who preached the doctrine of destroying’ births (i, e. nirvāṇa), Who is powerful by virtue of possessing the ten powers.
L. 2 He who on earth installs an image of the Buddha, the ‘Lord of the world’, he becomes happy in the next birth and (is born with) a pleasing personality.
L. 3-4 To-day (when) king Budhagupta of the famous dynasty is administering the whole earth, in the year one hundred and sixty-one, in the month of Bhādrapada, on the sixteenth day, a set of four images of Jina (literally the conqueror, i. e. the Buddha) is installed with devotion by Śaṅkhika (of) Rāshtra (family?), son of Gaṅgabala for the sake of religious (merit).
L. 5 Whatever merit be there in this act, may that be for the complete nirvāṇa of his (i. e. donor’s) parents and all sentient beings of the earth.