1. Stone inscription of Samudragupta – Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol III – written in Sanskrit – undated – This stone inscription was found by Alexander Cunningham near the Varaha temple – The inscription mentions the Gupta king Samudragupta who is compared with Dhanada (Kubera) and Antaka (Yama) in joy and wrath respectively. A mention of setting up a temple of Janardana at Airikina to augment his own glories.
2. Stone pillar inscription of Bhanugupta – Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol III – written in Sanskrit – dated in year 191 of the Gupta Era (510-11 CE) – it is found on a pillar which was turned into a Shivalinga and found by Cunningham – The inscription does not mention any reign of any particular king but mentions a certain Bhanugupta who might be not be sovereign but some king of the Gupta family. The object is non-sectarian and mentions that in company of Bhanugupta, who was a great ruler, his chieftain Goparaja came to Eran and fought a battle with the Maitras, and that Goparaja was killed, and that his wife accompanied him, by cremating herself on his funeral pyre, apparently near the place where the pillar was setup. This is probably the earliest record of Sati tradition. Goparaja is stated as the daughter’s son of the Sarabha king.
3. Inscription on a small boar statue – Descriptive List of Inscriptions in The Central Provinces and Berar – written in Sanskrit – undated, dated to 5th century CE on paleographic studies – mentions two names, Varahadatta and Maheshadatta, apparently two brothers who caused the statue to be made.