There is a village named Narasiṁhacaturvedimaṅgala,On caturvedimaṅgala, an equivalent of agrahāra used in the Tamil-speaking South of India as a suffix to villages granted tax-free to Brahmins, see 377; , s.v. which adorns the illustrious Kāñcī, and is esteemed by the excellent ones, the noble ones,
and is a pleasing resting place for twice-borns who master the Vedas and Vedāṅgas. There, in a pure lineage of brahmins vipra, he who is endowed with virtues, took birth.
He became the disciple of the venerable Vairocanasiṁha—[himself] an ocean of virtues—and [came to be] called Prajñāsiṁha, esteemed among the virtuous ones.
He, relying on the correct Dharma, with devotion ordered to be made this image of the Sugata, made of pure brass, which is resplendent as it is rubbed by devotees.
By the merit, may the world, together with his teacher and preceptor, joined by his mother and father, reach the state of sugatas!
While King kṣitibhr̥t Śrī-Rājyapāla was ruling the earth, during his 28th year, on the 8th day of the waxing sita fortnight of the month of Vaiśākha i.e., on the Buddha’s birthday, this most excellent memorial was made.
First edited by A. Banerji-Sastri (), whose reading was reproduced by S. Huntington (). An improved edition had by that time already been offered by P. L. Gupta (). There is even a third edition, by G. Bhattacharya (), but it is inferior to Gupta’s, as it comprises several silent emendations and printing or typing errors. Banerji-Sastri’s summary was mispresented as a translation by Huntington and Bhattacharya. In fact, no translation has been published so far. The text is edited here by Rajat Sanyal, Vincent Tournier & Arlo Griffiths, based on the photograph from the Huntington archive, and furnished with a translation by Vincent Tournier.
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