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{{Infobox artifact
|image = Indian mountain temple architecture inscription Mathura site.jpg
|name =
|image_caption = Ancient [[Sanskrit]] inscription<br>Indian Museum, Kolkata
|material =
|size =
|writing = Sanskrit
|created = ~ 1st Century CE
|period =
|place = [[Mathura]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]
|discovered =
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|location = Indian Museum, Kolkata
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| float = center
| relief = yes
| label = [[Mathura]]
| lat_deg = 27.4925
| lon_deg = 77.673611
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The '''Mountain Temple inscription''' was found near [[Mathura]], [[India]]. It is on a broken slab, and now housed at the [[Indian Museum, Kolkata]].<ref name="Quintanilla2007p260">{{cite book|author=Sonya Rhie Quintanilla|title=History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7Cb8IkZVSMC |year=2007|publisher=BRILL Academic|isbn=90-04-15537-6|page=260}}</ref><ref name=luders1961>
Heinrich Lüders and Klaus Ludwig Janert
(1961), Mathurā inscriptions, Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, {{oclc| 717966622}}, pages 203-204, 154, image on page 318</ref>

The Mountain Temple inscription makes an early mention of Hindu and Jain temple architecture, where its shape is described to be like a mountain and accompanied with an assembly hall (''[[mandapa|sabha]]''). The inscription's wording and arrangement, state Luders and Janert, closely resembles the Mora Well inscription, now in Mathura museum. Both describe a donation of a stone temple, halls and slabs; however, the Mora Well inscription is more detailed and mentions ''[[murti|pratima]]''. The Rajula in line 3 of the Mountain Temple inscription is likely the [[Northern Satraps]] Great Satrap [[Rajuvula]], found in [[Mathura lion capital]].<ref name=luders1961/>

The Mountain Temple inscription lacks a date. The similar [[Mora Well Inscription]] is dated to the early decades of the 1st-century CE and is related to early [[Vaishnavism]]: the Mora Well inscription mentions stone shrines dedicated to five [[Vrishni heroes]].<ref name="Srinivasan1997p211">{{cite book|author=Doris Srinivasan|title=Many Heads, Arms, and Eyes: Origin, Meaning, and Form of Multiplicity in Indian Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZheP9dIX9wC&pg=PA211 |year=1997|publisher=BRILL Academic|isbn=90-04-10758-4|pages=211–214, 308-311 with footnotes}}</ref>

==Inscription==
The discovered inscription is incomplete, in not quite correct [[Sanskrit]].<ref name=luders1961/> It reads:<ref name="Quintanilla2007p260"/>

<blockquote style="background-color:none;margin-right:5em;margin-left:0em;border-left:solid 6px #FFE0BB;padding:1.0em">
<poem>
1. . . . uvulasya putrasya mahaksatrapasya so ...
2. . . . ti parvato prasade(or do) sabha silapata ...
3. . . . taviryo rane rajulas ca pi[ta] ...
4. . . . sasyedam arca ...
</poem>
</blockquote>

==Translation==

Sonya Quintanilla translates it as,<ref name="Quintanilla2007p260"/>
{{quote|
. . . of the [[Northern Satraps|mahaksatrapasya]] [[Sodasa|So(dasa)]], son of [[Rajuvula|(Raj)uvula]] . . . <br>a temple like a mountain, an assembly hall, stone slabs... <br>whose heroism in battle, and (his) father Rajula . . . <br>this . . . of his is adored.}}

==References==
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{{Hindu inscriptions and arts|state=autocollapse}}

[[Category:Indian inscriptions]]
[[Category:1st-century inscriptions]]
[[Category:Mathura]]

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