Eran boar inscription of Toramana

Eran boar inscription of Toramana
Eran boar inscription of Alchon Huns ruler Toramana
MaterialRed sandstone statue
WritingSanskrit
CreatedCirca 510 CE
Period/cultureGupta Empire era
DiscoveredEran
PlaceEran
Present locationEran
Eran is located in India
Eran
Eran
Location of the Eran boar inscription of Toramana

The Eran boar inscription of Toramana, is a stone inscription found in Eran in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is 8 lines of Sanskrit, the first three of which are in meter and the rest in prose, written in a North Indian script. It is carved on the neck of a freestanding 11 feet (3.4 m) high red sandstone Varaha statue, a zoomorphic iconography of Vishnu avatar, and dated to the 6th century. The inscription names king Toramana, ruler of the Alchon Huns, as ruling over Malwa ("governing the earth") and records that a Dhanyaviṣṇu is dedicating a stone temple to Narayana (Vishnu).


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