Eran, Madhya Pradesh.

The Eran boar, under the neck of which the Toramana inscription can be found (area indicated in red). Location of the Eran boar inscription of Toramana.jpg

Inscription of Toramāṇa located on the neck of the boar sculpture.

Fleet, John F., Inscriptions of the Early Guptas (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 3) (Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publications Branch, 1888): 160-161.

Om! Victorious is the god (Viṣṇu), who has the form of a boar—who, in the act of lifting up the earth (out of the waters), caused the mountains to tremble with the blows of (his) hard snout— (and) who is the pillar (for the support) of the great house which is the three worlds!

1) In the first year—while the mahārājādhirāja, the glorious Toramāṇa, of great fame (and) of great lustre, is governing the earth—

2) On the tenth day of (the month) Phālguna—on this (lunar day), (specified) as above by the regnal year and month and day, (and) invested as above with its own characteristics;

3) By Dhanyaviṣṇu, the younger brother, obedient to him (and) accepted with favour by him, of the mahārāja Mātṛviṣṇu, who has gone to heaven—who was excessively devoted to the Divine One—who, by the will of (god) Vidhātṛi, was approached (in marriage-choice) by the goddess of sovereignty, as if by a maiden choosing (him) of her own accord (to be her husband) —whose fame extended up to the borders of the four oceans—who was possessed of unimpaired honour and wealth (and) who was victorious in battle against many enemies—who was the son of the sons’s son of Indraviṣṇu, who was attentive to his duties—who celebrated sacrifices—who practised private study (of the scriptures) —who was a Brāhmaṇ Saint—(and) who was the most excellent (of the followers) of the Maitrāyaṇīya (śākhā) —who was the son’s son of Varuṇaviṣṇu, who imitated the virtuous qualities of (his) father—(and) who was the son of Hariviṣṇu, who was the counterpart of (his) father in meritorious qualities, (and) was the cause of the advancement of his race;

6) (By this Dhanyaviṣṇu), accomplishing, in unison with (the previously expressed wishes of) him, a joint deed of religious merit, for the sake of increasing the religious merit of (his) parents, this stone temple of the divine (god) Nārāyaṇa—who has the form of a boar (and) who is entirely devoted to (the welfare of) the universe—has been caused to be made in this his own viṣaya of Airikiṇa.

8) Let prosperity attend all the subjects, headed by the cows and the Brāhmaṇs!

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