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‘The golden spire, with its auspicious ornament of this house of Svayambhū-Śiva is such that it may be said that this is the silver mountain which has obtained, by the gift of Īśa, the possession of a golden summit ; it is a tree of desire on the (white pile of) Hara's laughter (namely, the mountain Kailāśa), crowned by a summit radiant with young red spouts, in it there is combined the unique substance of the white body and the tawny towering matted hair of the Lord of Umā.’—(Inscrip. from Yewur, B. of A. D. 1017, v. 98, *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XII, pp. 282, 289.)