Bodhgayā (बोधगया), Bihār. Inscription (INBG00016) on the inner side of a coping stone of the vedikā (OBBG00016) recording an endowment for offerings made in the gaṃdhakuṭī (“the perfumed chamber of the Buddha”, i.e. the sanctum of the Mahābodhi temple). Edition here that of Tsukamoto 1996 (based on Bloch 1912), see Concordance for bibliographic data.
1 …has been made, where the great Gandhakuṭi of Vajrāsana (sc. Buddha) is. The temple has been adorned with a new coating of plaster and paint, at the cost of 250 dīnāras. And in the temple a lamp of ghee has been provided for the Lord Buddha by the gift of a hundred cows, for as long as moon, sun, and stars shall endure. Also, by another hundred cows, in addition to the cost of small, perpetually recurring repairs to the temple, provision has been made for [another] lamp of ghee, to be burnt daily before the image inside the temple. [By another hundred cows provision has been made for having a lamp of ghee burnt before] the brass image of the Lord Buddha in the Monastery (vihāra)…
2 …a perpetual endowment of a lamp [of ghee] has been made for the benefit of the Monastery. There also … a large water reservoir has been dug out for the use of the noble congregation of monks, and to the east of it, a new field has been laid out. Whatever merit may have been acquired by me by all this, may this be for the benefit of my parents [at first…].