<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg/220px-Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg/330px-Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg/440px-Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1229" data-file-height="918"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lomas_Rishi_Anantavarman_inscription.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The inscription appears over the entrance of Lomas Rishi.</div></div></div>Lomas Rishi inscription of Anantavarman (appears over the entrance of Lomas Rishi).<br><p>Inscription of Antanavarman, 5-6th century CE:<br></p>
<blockquote class="templatequote language"><p>Om! He, Anantavarman who was the excellent son, captivating the hearts of 
</p><p>mankind, of the illustrious Sardula, {and) who, possessed of very great virtues, adorned by 
his own (high) birth the family of the Maukhari kings,— he, of unsullied fame, with joy 
caused to be made, as if it were his own fame represented in bodily form in the world, this 
beautiful image, placed in (this) cave of the mountain Pravaragiri, of (the god) Krishna. 
</p><p>(Line 3.)--The illustrious Sardula, of firmly established fame, the best among 
chieftains, became the ruler of the earth; -he who was a very Death to hostile kings; 
who was a tree, the fruits of which were the (fulfilled) wishes of (his) favourites; who 
was the torch of the family of the warrior caste, that is glorious through waging many 
battles; (and) who, charming the thoughts of lovely women, resembled (the god) 
Smara. 
</p><p>(L. 5.)— On whatsoever enemy the illustrious king Sardula casts in anger his 
scowling eye, the expanded and tremulous and clear and beloved pupil of which is red at 
</p><p>
the corners between the uplifted brows,— on him there falls the death-dealing arrow, discharged from the bowstring drawn up to (his) ear, of his son, the giver of endless pleasure, who has the name of Anantavarman.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Fleet <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.180677/2015.180677.Corpus-Inscriptionum-Indicarum--Vol-3#page/n429/mode/2up">p.223</a></div>
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Fleet, 1888
1888-01-01
Inscriptions Of The Early Gupta Kings And Their Successors <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.180677">[1]</a>