Eran Boar Inscription

8 lines of text. Hall says the first line is considerably longer than the rest, but this is clearly wrong; the last line is, however, considerably shorter than the rest, and is aligned to the centre. The inscribed panel is just barely larger than the inscription. A vertical crack runs across the panel about 1/3 of its width from the right-hand side, damaging and destroying some characters.

Object Reference

Eran Stone Boar

Object URI

OB00090

Inscription URI

IN00099

Basic Metadata

Extent

83 cm width x 27 cm height

Decoration

None.

Language

Sanskrit

Script

northern class, similar to %IN00045

Script size

Reigning Monarch

Toramāṇa

Date (min)

495

Date (max)

515

Date comments

Intrinsic Date: 1 phālguna 10 (era: regnal, Toramāṇa). Basis of dating: intrinsic + reign of Toramāṇa.

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A colossal image of Varāha, facing east, in the portico of a ruined temple at the south end of the group of temples about 800 m to the west of the village. The inscription is on a flattened (slightly concave) panel on the Varāha's neck (or, as expressed by Hall_1861b:14, it "spans the throat of a colossal image of a swine"). The bottom of the panel is about 180 cm above the ground.
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8 lines of text. Hall says the first line is considerably longer than the rest, but this is clearly wrong; the last line is, however, considerably shorter than the rest, and is aligned to the centre. The inscribed panel is just barely larger than the inscription. A vertical crack runs across the panel about 1/3 of its width from the right-hand side, damaging and destroying some characters.
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Discovered (as far as the Toramāṇa inscription is concerned) by T. S. Burt in 1838.
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<l>jayati dharaṇy-uddharaṇe ghana-ghoṇāghāta-ghūrṇṇita-mahīddhraḥ</l>
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<l>phālguna-divase daśame| ity evaṃ rājya-varṣa-māsa-dinaiḥ</l>
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sva-karmmābhiratasya kratu-yājino dhīta-svādhyāyasya viprarṣer mmaittrāyaṇīya-vṛṣabhasyendraviṣṇoḥ prapauttrasya| <lb n="4" />pitur guṇānukāriṇo varuṇaviṣṇoḥ pauttrasya <space quantity="1" unit="character" /> pitaram anujātasya sva-vaṃśa-vṛddhi-hetor hariviṣṇoḥ puttrasyātyanta-bhagavad-bhaktasya vidhātur icchayā<surplus>|</surplus>
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Bibliography description

First noticed (with eye copy, transliteration and translation) in #Prinsep_1838c:631-633. Reading and translation revised in #Hall_1861b:20-22. Re-edited in #Fleet_1888. Summarised in #Trivedi_2001:22-23 (No. 9.) The Varāha sculpture and its surroundings are described in #ASIR_10: 82-83. The boar itself is discussed at length in #Becker_2010.

Inscription Concordance

1877

1/III.55

357

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