What it says
The inscription at Cave 6 is dated in the year 82, on the eleventh day of the bright half of Ashadha, and records the gift of a feudatory Sanakanika maharaja who meditated on the feet of Chandragupta. In Cave 7, the Tawa cave, Virasena of Pataliputra, minister of peace and war and a poet, says he came here with the king, who sought to conquer the whole earth, and made the cave for Shambhu out of devotion.
What it proves
They give a fixed date to the oldest surviving Hindu cave temples of the Gupta age and show the court’s worship of both Vishnu and Shiva.
