Inscription engraved on the pedestal of a Hari-Hara image found in the garden of a house called Tyāgaltole, close to the western gate of Paśupatināth, in Ganchanani, Deopātan, Kathmandu. Saṃvat 489.
Oh Lakṣmī, our husbands, look at them, they are in a pair but look as one and not attached as husband and wife, one hand catching hold of a trident and another Śārṅga, a club. Each could accomplish singly anything and (just think what would appear difficult to them when they are combined) abandoning, their separate identity of images…my friends, such as our husbands, saying this Pārvatī had cast her glance at Śiva, the enemy of the God of Sex. In this fashion I ever salute the God, half Śiva and half Viṣṇu. This day, Samvat 487 Prathamāṣāḍha śukla (first part of the intercalary month) during the timeless reign of Bhaṭṭāraka mahārāja Gaṇadeva, meditating upon the feet of the great devotee of the God, Bhaumagupta, he who knew propriety of conduct i.e. modesty, who loved to be given to ever performing clever works, born in high lineage, rendering meritorious deeds for the enhancement of virtues of his departed parents as well as of himself, such Svāmivārta, set up an image of Lord Śaṅkara-Nārāyaṇa, the cause of the origin, maintenance and annihilation of the entire universe, and who has neither beginning nor end. He is the teacher of the three worlds, repository of all good deeds to whom are tied the regulated results of the wealth of virtuous men, who bears the whole world with its various forms. The devotion of peoples of pure mind to him does not go without benefits. Different people have different kinds of devotion to God; in order to remove any wrong notion of partiality from those suffering from prejudices, Murāri (Viṣṇu) and Īśvara (Śiva) have assumed one form, half and half, from both, like the autumn cloud appearing dark and white in complexion. Those freed from vanity who daily perform acts of piety intended to cause happiness in both the worlds attain by their good deeds, regular wellbeing here and then have place in heaven. Surely the sinners have a downward course, and the virtuous go upward. Knowing this with steady and enlightened mind and adroit in the use of rituals for the seen and unseen, this Vārta (the royal officer) enshrined the half Śaṅkara-half-Nārāyaṇa image with devotion for attainment of merits.