__NOTOC__ The Mountain Temple inscription was found near Mathura, India. It is on a broken slab, and now housed at the Indian Museum, Kolkata.Heinrich Lüders and Klaus Ludwig Janert (1961), Mathurā inscriptions, Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, , pages 203-204, 154, image on page 318
The Mountain Temple inscription makes an early mention of Hindu and Jain temple architecture, where its shape is described to be like a mountain and accompanied with an assembly hall (sabha). The inscription's wording and arrangement, state Luders and Janert, closely resembles the Mora Well inscription, now in Mathura museum. Both describe a donation of a stone temple, halls and slabs; however, the Mora Well inscription is more detailed and mentions pratima. The Rajula in line 3 of the Mountain Temple inscription is likely the Northern Satraps Great Satrap Rajuvula, found in Mathura lion capital.
The Mountain Temple inscription lacks a date. The similar Mora Well Inscription is dated to the early decades of the 1st-century CE and is related to early Vaishnavism: the Mora Well inscription mentions stone shrines dedicated to five Vrishni heroes.
Inscription The discovered inscription is incomplete, in not quite correct Sanskrit. It reads:
1. . . . uvulasya putrasya mahaksatrapasya so ... 2. . . . ti parvato prasade(or do) sabha silapata ... 3. . . . taviryo rane rajulas ca pi[ta] ... 4. . . . sasyedam arca ...
Translation
Sonya Quintanilla translates it as,
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