# EIAD 1. Octagonal pillar from Nagarjunakonda — reign of Gotamīputta
Siri-Vijayasātakaṇṇi, year 6

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00001

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00001.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (na)mo bhagavato _ Agapogalasa ⟨2⟩ raṁño gotamiputasa _
sirivijayasa⟨3⟩takaṁṇṇisa _ sava 6 gipa 4 diva vesa⟨4⟩khapuṇima

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ raṁño ⬦ raño Sarkar [1970] 1965–1966.

⟨2-3⟩ -satakaṁṇṇisa ⬦ -satakaṇṇisa Sarkar [1970] 1965–1966.

⟨3-4⟩ vesakhapuṇima ⬦ vesākhapuṇima Sarkar [1970] 1965–1966.

## Translation

Homage to the Bhagavant, highest man! 6th year of King Gotamīputta
Siri-Vijayasātakaṇṇi, 4th fortnight of the hot season, full-moon day of
Vaiśākha.

## Commentary

⟨4⟩[1]

## Bibliography

First described and edited by Sarkar [1970] 1965–1966. Re-edited here on
the basis of available documents and after autopsy of the stone.

### Secondary

Sarkar, H. 1960. “Some aspects of the Buddhist monuments at
Nagarjunakonda.” Ancient India: Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of
India 16, pp. 65–84. [URL]. Page 84 (postcript by editor).

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological
Survey of India. Pages 1961–62: 77.

ARIE

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note,
和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive
study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and
Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店.
Page no. Naga 69.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 67–8
(no. 1).

[1] According to Raghunath 2001, two visarga-like dots at the end of the
inscription serve to denote the end of the record, but we consider these
accidental.