Les Antiques de Nepal
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Les Antiques de Nepal
‘Samvat 107 sri paramadeva pka maharajesu jayavarmma’.
Shyam Sunder Rajbanshi of the Epigraphy division (Department of Archaeology) read the inscription at the base of the life-sized statue with a good deal of excitement. After painstaking effort and much debate between experts, the literal translation was finally deciphered as, ‘ The year 107. Among the Kings, the Fourth, Late Sri Jayavarmma.’
Thus a chapter in the ancient history of Nepal was unveiled. The material used in the making of this antique statue- sankhu type sandstone (sandstone without polish), as well as the use of an early script proved that this statue was from the first Lichchavi samvat (Saka Samvat), which meant that it was made in the 2nd century A.D. This statue, discovered in Maligaon in 1994, was the earliest of any found with Lichchavi inscriptions on
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