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Eran inscription

At Eran, an inscription by Samudragupta seems to succeed that of a local Saka ruler named Sridharavarman, already known from the Kanakerha inscription at Sanchi and another inscription in Eran. Samudragupta may therefore have ousted Sridharavarman in his campaigns to the West. The Eran Inscription of Samudragupta is presently stored in Kolkata Indian Museum. The inscription, in red sandstone, was found not far to the west of the ruined temple of the boar. It reads:

(Lines 1 to 6, containing the whole of the first verse and the first half of the second, are entirely broken away and lost.) (Line 7.)—....................................in giving gold...................................... Prithu and Râghava and other kings (L. 9.)—......... there was Samudragupta, equal to (the gods) Dhanada and Antaka in (respectively) pleasure and anger;................. by policy; (and) the whole tribe of kings upon the earth was and reduced to the loss of the wealth of their sovereignty;— (L. 13.)—, by......... satisfied by devotion and policy and valour,—by the glories, consisting of the consecration by besprinkling, &c., that belong to the title of'king,'— (and) by........... combined with supreme satisfaction, —.................. (was) a king whose vigour could not be resisted;— (L. 17.)— there was married a virtuous and faithful wife, whose dower was provided by (his) manliness and prowess; who was possessed of an abundance of and horses and money and grain; who delighted in the houses of.............; (and) who went about in the company of many sons and sons' sons;— (L. 21.)— Whose deeds in battle (are) kindled with prowess; (whose)...... very mighty fame is always circling round about; and whose enemies are terrified, when they think,even in the intervals of dreaming, of (his)....... that are vigorous in war; — (L. 25.).................... in a place in Airikina (Eran), the city of his own enjoyment............. has been set up, for the sake of augmenting his own fame. (L. 27.) —......................... when the king said.......

(The rest of the inscription is entirely broken away and lost.)