English: Bhanugupta Eran stone pillar inscription. This inscription mentions the death of chieftain or noble Goparaja in a battle the 191st year without mentioning calendar system. This is generally accepted as Gupta era 191, or 510 CE. Fleet published it, and proposed that this one the earliest recorded instances of Sati in its line 7. Alexander Cunningham did not comment on this Bhanugupta-Goparaja inscription, but did comment on three Sati stones he found and dated to the 14th to 18th centuries. The Bhanugupta inscription does not use the word sati or equivalent. The inscription was interpolated by Fleet for translation. His translation in the first edition was later revised in the text's second edition.

Line 7 (actual surviving inscription): bhakt=anurakta cha priya cha kanta bhr=alag=anugat=agirsim

Line 7 (Fleet's interpolation): bhakt=anurakta ch priya cha kanta bh[a]r[y]=a[va]lag[n]=anugat=ag[n]ir[a]sim

Fleet's translation of the interpolated text (1st edition): and (his) devoted, attached, beloved, and beauteous wife, in close companionship, accompanied (him) onto the funeral pyre.

Fleet's translation of the interpolated text (2nd edition): and (his) devoted, attached, beloved, and beauteous wife, clinging (to him), entered into the mass of fire (funeral pyre).