Udayagiri Cave Inscription of Kumaragupta (425-426 CE)

        Reverence to the Perfect Ones! In the augmenting reign of the family of the best of kings, belonging to the Gupta lineage, who are endowed with glory (and) are oceans of virtuous qualities;-in a century of years, coupled with six; and in the excellent month of Kârttika; and on the fifth day of the dark fortnight;-

        (Line 3.)-He who has conquered the enemies (of religion), (and) is possessed of tranquillity and self-command, caused to be made (and set up) in the mouth of (this) cave, this image of a Jina, richly endowed with (the embellishments of) the expanded hoods of a snake and an attendant female divinity, (and) having the name of Pârshva, the best of the Jinas.

        (L. 4.)-He is, indeed, the disciple of the saint, the Âchârya Gôsharman, who was the ornament of the lineage of the Âchârya Bhadra (and) sprang from a noble family; but he is more widely renowned on the earth (as being) the son, (begotten) on Padmâvatî, of the Ashvapati, the soldier Sanghila, who, unconquerable by (his) enemies, took himself to be a very Ripughna;-by his own appellation, he is spoken of under the name of Shankara; - (and) he has adhered to the path of ascetics, conformable to the sacred precepts.

        (L. 7.)-Born in the region of the north, the best of countries, which resembles (in beatitude) the land of the Northern Kurus, - he, the wise one, has set aside whatever religious merit (there is) in this (act), for the purpose of destroying the band of the enemies of religious actions.

From: Fleet, John F. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Inscriptions of the Early Guptas. Vol. III. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publications Branch, 1888, 259-260.