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Eran Stone Boar

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.

Object URI
OB00090
Extent
420 cm width x 340 cm height x 156 cm depth
History details
Discovered (as far as the Toramāṇa inscription is concerned) by T. S. Burt in 1838.
Created
Place
Airikiṇa
Recorded
Date
1838
Stored
Place
in situ

Eran Boar Inscription

Inscription URI
IN00099
Extent
83 cm width x 27 cm height
Decoration
None.
Edition
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Discovered (as far as the Toramāṇa inscription is concerned) by T. S. Burt in 1838.</p>
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