The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.70

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(1) *Bodhgaya stone inscription.*—Discovered by Cunningham in the south of the Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgaya. It is a short inscription of 9 lines incised on a stone bearing the figure of Viṣṇu, Sūrya, and Śrī (Bhairava ?). It records the installation at Mahābodhi of a four-faced (image) of Mahādeva (*Mahādevaścaturmukhaḥ*) and the construction of a *puṣkariṇī* at a cost of 3,000 *drammas* by Keśava, the son of the sculptor (*śilābhit*) Ujjvala in the 26th year of king Dharmapāla.³