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Recreated Photoshop rendition of the inhanced image of the incription of the Heliodorus column - An archaeological discovery. It reads as follows:

1) Devadevasu Va[sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam

2) Karito ia Heliodorena bhaga

3) Vatena Diyasa putrena Takhasilakena

4) Yonadatena agatena maharajasa

5) Amtalikitasa upa[m]ta samkasam-rano

6) Kasiput[r]asa [Bh]agabhadrasa tratarasa

7) Vasena [chatu]dasena rajena vadhamanasa

" This Garuda-column of Vasudeva (Visnu), the god of gods, was erected here by Heliodorus, a worshipper of Vishnu, the son of Dion, and an inhabitant of Taxila, who came as Greek ambassador from the Great King Antialkidas to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra, the Savior, then reigning prosperously in the fourteenth year of his kingship."

and goes on ...

1) Trini amutapadani-[su] anuthitani

2) nayamti svaga damo chago apramado

"Three immortal precepts (footsteps)..when practiced lead to heaven-self restraint, charity, conscientiousness."

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current	21:17, 15 March 2008	179×171 (31 KB)	Wikidas (Talk \| contribs)	(Recreated Photoshop rendition of the inhanced image of the incription of the Heliodorus column - An archaeological discovery. It reads as follows: 1) Devadevasu Va[sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam 2) Karito ia Heliodorena bhaga 3) Vatena Diyasa putrena)