[2][3] The inscription is very useful to clarify relative chronologies during the period.

The inscription reads: In Kharoshthi, the referential dates at the beginning of the inscription appear both in words and in numbers, together with the name of the era they are calculated in, and are given as follows: vaṣaye sataviśaye 20 4 1 1 1 iśparasa Vijayamitrasa Apacarajasa aṇuśastiye ye vucati "In the twenty-seventh - 27 - year in the reign of Lord Vijayamitra, the King of the Apraca" ayasa vaṣaye tresa⟨*ta⟩timae 20 20 20 10 1 1 1 "in the seventy-third - 73 - year which is called "of Azes"" Yoṇaṇa vaṣaye ekaduśatimaye 2 100 1 "in the two hundred and first - 201 - year of the Yonas (Greeks)" Śravaṇasa masasa divasaye aṭhamaye iśa divasaṃmi pratiṭ́havidu thuve Rukhuṇaye Apacarajabharyae Vijayamitreṇa Apracarajeṇa Iṃdravarmeṇa strategeṇa sabharyarehi sakumarehi

"on the eighth day of the month of Sravana; on this day was established [this] stupa by Rukhuna, the wife of the King of Apraca, [and] by Vijayamitra, the king of Apraca, [and] by Indravarma (Indravasu?

"This dedication also indicates that King Vijayamitra and his wife Rukhuna were followers of Buddhism.

The authenticity of the inscription is nearly unanimously accepted by the academic community, Gérard Fussman being a dissenting voice.