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कहाऊँ स्तम्भ एवं क्षेत्रीय पुरातत्व की खोज
Translation..
"In the month of jyaistha, in the year one hundred and thirty-threef after the decease of SKANDA GUPTA, the chief of a hundred kings, resembling Indra in his rule, possessed of the chiefest of riches, enjoying far-spread reputation, born of the royal race of the GUPTAS, whose earthly throne was shaken by the wind of the bowing heads of a hundred kings.
At this celebrated and precious village, sanctified in reverential attachment by the inhabitants of Kakubharatig.
The opulent BHATTI Soma was the sone of Amla, the receptacle of good qualities. His son was the very famous and talented RUDRA SOMA, known by another appellation as VYAGHRARATT. * His own son was MADRA, the constnt and friendly patron of brahmans, gurus, and yatis. He, struck with awe at beholding the universal instability of this world, made (for himself) a road of virtuet; having set up (established) along the roadside, five images, made of quarried stone, of INDRA, objects of adoration to the religious and devout, for the increase of his own moral merit and the happiness of mankind; (the same) having attached thereto a tank filled with water.
This stone pillar, beautiful and lofty as the craggy pinnacles of the mountains, is the maker of renown: (i.e. records his meritorious act.)"
The circumstance of chief importance in the above monument, is its allusion to 'SKANDA GUPTA, of the family of the GUPTAS' a name so well known to us from the Bhitari inscription and from our Canouj coins. That his sway was
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