Site Name: Sarnath
Date: 1027 CE (VS 1083)
Subject: Pedestal of a seated Buddha image, fragment, inscribed. The inscription translates as: " Om. Adoration to the Buddha! The illustrious Sthirapala and his younger brother, the illustrious Vasantapala, whom the lord of Gauda (Bengal), the illustrious Mahipala, caused to establish in Kasi (the temples of) Isana(Siva) and Chitraghanta (Durga) and other precious monuments of his glory in hundreds-after he had worshipped the foot of Gurava Sri-Vamaiasi, which is like a lotus in the lake of Varanasi surrounded, as it were, by saivala plants through the hair of bowing kings; they who have made learning fruitful and who do not turn back on their way to supreme knowledge, restored the stupa and (the shrine or the Convent of) the wheel of law completely, and built this shrine (gandhakuti) of stone relating to the eight great places. Samvat 1083, on the 11th day of Pausa."