Text A:

            "This Garuda-standard was made by order of the Bhagavata    .Heliodoros, the son of Dion, a man of Taxila, a Greek ambassador from King Antialkidas, to King Bhagabhadra, the son of the Princess from Benares, the saviour, while prospering in the fourteenth year of his reign."

            On the other side of the pillar the following inscription is found:-

Text B:

            "Three are the steps to immortality which      followed lead to heaven, [namely] self-control, self-denial and watchfulness."

From: Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report (1908-1909). Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1912, 129.