The Lakulisa Mathura Pillar Inscription is a 4th-century CE Sanskrit inscription in early Gupta script related to the Shaivism tradition of Hinduism.[1][2][3] Discovered near a Mathura well in north India, the damaged inscription is one of the earliest evidences of murti (statue) consecration in a temple made to celebrate gurus (preceptors, gurvayatane). It is, according to the Indologist Michael Willis, crucial to understanding the "history of Pashupata Shaivism" and a floruit for the antiquity of its practices.[3] The Lakulisha Mathura inscription is one of the earliest epigraphical evidence of a developed Shaiva initiation tradition.[4][note 1]
^David N Lorenzen 1972, pp. 179–180.
^D R Bhandarkar, B C Chhabra & G S Gai 1981, pp. 240–242.
^ abMichael Willis 2014, pp. 134–137.
^ abAlexis Sanderson 2013, p. 225.
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