The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.83.5

v2.c16.83.5

and if so, it would follow that the hero delineated in the frieze should be accepted as a plastic representation of the person decribed in the inscription. Now a marriage of that person with the daughter of a conquered hill chief is mentioned in the monument, and he is repeatedly said to have caused various caves to be bored, and it would not be by any means unreasonable to suppose that he caused the story of his romantic marriage to be sculptured in the frieze. Unfortunately the inscription is so obliterated at the part where the marriage is mentioned, that it is impossible to gather any details of that incident, and the identification of the hero of the inscription with the abductor in the frieze must remain a mere conjecture.