Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.8

c14.8

1. The King, Beloved of the Gods, of Loving Regard, when he had been anointed twenty years,
2. came in person and worshiped, because the Buddha Śākyamuni was born here.
3. He had constructed walls inlaid with stone (?) and had erected [this] stone pillar,
4. because [i.e., to proclaim that] the Lord was born here. The village of Lummini was made exempt from taxation
5. and [subject to paying only] a one-eighth share [of its produce].