Inscribed Reliquary in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2009

Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by King Indravarman
Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara, Bajaur region), AD 5-6
Schist

Accession # 1987.142.71a,b

Inscribed, "In the sixty-third year, of the late Great King Aya [Azes], on the sixteenth day of the month Kartia [Kartika]; at this auspicious [?] time Prince Indravarma [Indravarman], son of the King of Apraca, establishes these bodily relics of Lord Sakyamuni;...he produces brahma-merit together with his mother Rukhunaka, daughter of Aji...And these bodily relics, having been brought in procession from the Muryaka cave stupa, were established in a secure [?], safe, deep [?] depository.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.