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svasti śaka-varṣātīta 779 māsa bhadravāda Ekādaśa śukla-pakṣa panirvan· vagai śukra tatkăla ra bavaṁ Anakvi manusuka sīma savaḥ tampaḥ 4 pavaiḥ rakai vakka pu manota savahani vihāra Abhayānanda

779 māsa bhadravāda Ekādaśa da Edaśa The date conversion published in implies the restitution 748 māsa bhadravāda Ekādaśa.

Hail! Elapsed Śaka year 779, month of Bhadravāda, eleventh tithi of the waxing fortnight, Panirvan (of the 6-day cycle), Vagai (of the 5-day cycle), Friday (i.e., on 3 September 857 CE): that was when the wife of the Lord of Bavaṅ ra bavaṅ anakvi demarcated the sīma — 4 tampah of paddy field — gift of the Lord of Vəka named pu Manota to become the paddy fields of the Abhayānanda vihāra.

This inscription has since been ascribed to the year 748 Śaka, based on the character -da that remains legible of the month name (which cannot be other than Bhadravāda) along with tithi 11, waxing fortnight, as well as the names of the days in the 6, 5 and 7-day cycles. However, the same elements return in 779, and this year fits the historical context better, with the appearance of rakai Vka pu Manota, a figure plausibly identifiable with the rakai Vka pu Manūt in the inscriptions Wanua Tengah I and Wanua Tengah II (which both contain the same text, dated 785 Śaka).

Edited in . Re-edited here by Arlo Griffiths from photogrammetry.

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