! May this be agreeable to Him! The
son of King Kshaparata, Lord of the Kshatriya tribe and protector of
people, the Ruler of Dinik, bright as the dawn, sacrifices a hundred
thousand cows that graze on the river Banasa, together with the river,
and also the gift of gold by the builder of this holy shelter of gods,
the place of the curbing of the Brahmans' passions. There is no more
desirable place than this place, neither in Prabhasa, where accumulate
hundreds of thousands of Brahmans repeating the sacred verse, nor in the
sacred city Gaya, nor on the steep mountain near Dashatura, nor on the
Serpents' Field in Govardhana, nor in the city Pratisraya where
stands the monastery of Buddhists, nor even in the edifice erected by
Depana-kara on the shores of the fresh water [?] sea. This place, giving
incomparable favors, is agreeable and useful in all respects to the
spotted deerskin of an ascetic. A safe boat given also by him who built
the gratuitous ferry daily transports to the well-guarded shore. By him
also who built the house for travelers and the public fountain, a gilded
lion was erected by the ever-assaulted gate of this Govardhana, also
another [lion] by the ferry-boat, and another by Ramatirtha. Various
kinds of food will always be found here by the scanty flock; for this
flock more than a hundred kinds of herbs and thousands of mountain
roots are stored by this generous giver. In the same Govardhana, in the
luminous mountain, this second cave was dug by the order of the same
beneficent person, during the very year when the Sun, Shukra and Rahu,
much respected by men, were in the full glory of their rise; it was in
this year that the gifts were offered. Lakshmi, Indra and Yama having
blessed them, returned with shouts of triumph to their chariot, kept on
the way free from obstacles [the sky], by the force of mantrams. When
they [the gods] all left, poured a heavy shower....." and so on.

Rahn and Kehetti are the fixed stars which form the head and the tail
of the constellation of the Dragon. Shukra is Venus. Lakshmi, Indra and
Yama stand here for the constellations of Virgo, Aquarius and Taurus,
which are subject and consecrated to these three among the twelve higher
deities.

The first caves are dugout in a conical hillock about two hundred and
eighty feet from its base. In the chief of them stand three statues of
Buddha; in the lateral ones a lingam and two Jaina idols. In the top
cave there is a statue of Dha