Tosham rock inscription

They also built the Kalayat Ancient Bricks Temple Complex and may have been vassals of the Satavahana dynasty, which disintegrated into smaller kingdoms in the 3rd century, during the Gupta Empire.

The inscription records the lineage and building activities of a line of Sātvata religious preceptors (ācārya) dating to the 4th and 5th centuries CE.

The inscription was first published by John Faithfull Fleet in his 1888 publication Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.

[4] jitaṃ abhīkṣṇam eva jāmbavatīvadanāravindorjjitāḷinā dānavāṅganāmukhāmbhojalakṣmītuṣāreṇa viṣṇunā anekapuruṣābhyāgatāryyasātvatayogācārya- bhagavadbhaktayaśastrātaprapautrasyācāryyaviṣṇutrātapautrasyācāryya- vasudattap[u]trasya rāvaṇyām utpannasya gotamasagotrasyācāryyaopāddhyāya- yaśastrāta[ān]ujasyācāryyasomatrātasyedaṃ bhagavatpādopayo- jyaṃ kuṇḍam uparyyāvasathaḥ ku- ṇḍaṃ cāparaṃ Translation: "Verily victory has been achieved again and again by Viṣṇu – a mighty bee on the water lily that is the face of Jāmbavatī – a very frost to the beauty of the water lilies which are the faces of the women of the demons!

These rock paintings were said to include figures such as a royal family, a saint, and an orange dinosaur.