Mathura Inscription of Chandragupta II

        (Line 8.)-By him who is the son,-accepted by him, (and) begotten on the Mahâdêvî Dattadêvî,- of the Mahârâjâdhirâja, [the glorious] Samudragupta,-

        (L. I.)-[Who was the exterminator of all kings; who had no antagonist (of equal power)] in the world; [whose fame was] tasted [by the waters of the four oceans]; who was equal to (the gods) [Dhanada and Varuna and Indra and Antaka]; who was [the very axe] of (the god) Kritânta; who was the giver of [many] millions of [lawfully acquired cows] and gold; [who was the restorer of the ashvamêdha-sacrifice, that had been long in abeyance];-

        (L. 5.)-Who was the son of the son's son of the Mahârâja the illustrious Gupta; the son's son of [the mahârâja, the illustrious] Ghatôtkacha; (and) the son of the Mahârâjâdhirâja [the glorious Chandragupta (I.)], (and) the daughter's son of Lichchhavi, begotten on the Mahâdêvî Kumâradêvî;-

        (L. 11.)-[By him, the most devout worshipper of the Divine One, the Mahârâjâdhirâja, the glorious Chandragupta (II.)], . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,

(The rest of the inscription is entirely broken away and lost.)

From: Fleet, John F. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Inscriptions of the Early Guptas. Vol. III. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publications Branch, 1888, 27-28.