Lalāṭendukesari cave inscription of the time of Uddyotakeśarin year 5 EpiDoc Encoding Amandine Wattelier-Bricout intellectual authorship of edition Amandine Wattelier-Bricout DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSSomavamsin00027

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śrī-Udyotakeśarī vijayarājya-samvaT 5śrī-kumāra-parvvata-sthāne jiīrnna-vāpī-jirnna IsaṇaUdyotita tasmin yāne catur-vinsati tīrthaṁ karasthāpita pratiṣṭha-kāle hari Aupā jasanandikananditadrathā śrī-pārasthanāthasya karmmakhayaḥ

°keśarī °keśari °jiīrnna° °jirnna° pratiṣṭha-kāle pratiṣṭha-kāle hari harri nanditadrathā knadatidrathā

In the year 5 of the victorious reign of illustrious Uddyotakesarî, on the illustrious Kumāra mountain, decayed tanks and decayed temples were caused to shine and at that place the images of the twenty-four Tîrthaṅkaras were set up. At the time fo the dedication ... Jasanandi ... in the place Temple of the illustrious Pārasvanātha...

According to 108, there are two other digits engraved after the five: a four and a nine. Since there is no era accompanying this three-digit number, he assumes that the reference era is the Gaṅga one beginning in AD 496 because the Gaṅga era had become widely current in the southern part of Orissa long before 1045 AD and its use in an inscription of Orissa of the period will not appear surprising or unusual, particularly if its donor belonged to the southern part. The engraved inscription would date, according to him, to 1045 AD.

According to , the inscription was discovered in the cave called Lalāṭendukesari's cave or Lion gate by Mr. S. Ganguli, photographer of the Archaeological Survey in October 1913. The record would be incised on the back wall of the cave at a height of about thirty or forty feet from the floor of the cave above a group of Jain images of the Digambara sect.

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