sidham· . namo bhagavato raṁño vaseṭhi-putasa siri-caṁtamulasa vijaya-saṁvacharaṁ pacamaṁ 5 vāsāṇaṁ pakhaṁ padhamaṁ 1 divasaṁ padhamaṁ 1 nakare gaṁjikaṭe vathavasa vanijakasa saṁghilasa bhariyaya ca vaṇijakiṇiya haṁghaya puteṇa vaṇijakena cula-dhaṁmasirina sabhariyakena sadhutukena sasuṁhā-vivāhena samita-natukena saha ca bhatuhi Apaṇo Āyu-vadhanikaṁ vijaya-vejayikaṁ ca game tuva tura-maṁḍale Upedagiri-vadhamāne bhagavato budhasa saṁghasa maḍave selamayo Āyaka-khaṁbho karito ti .

vaseṭhi-putasa vase Sankaranarayanan makes clear in his n. 7 that the damaged letters are obviously ṭhiputasa. padhamaṁ 1 padhamaṁ 1 . Sankaranarayanan reads numeral and punctuation sign, but what little remains points to a single sign 1. gaṁjikaṭe gaṁjikuṭe It would also be possible to read gaṁjākaṭe. puteṇa putana cula-dhaṁmasirina cuṭidhārasirīṇa Sankaranarayanan adds a note: Read siriṇā. Our restitution is based on occurrences of the name Dhaṁmasiri in EIAD 105, ll. 4 and 6, and numerous occurrences of names preceded by cula- throughout the corpus. sabhariyakena sabhariyakeṇa sasuṁhā-vivāhena sasuṁha-vīvahena Sankaranarayanan adds a note on suṁ: This letter, originally written as ā, is corrected into su. We do not think that this scenario imposes itself. The previous editor also suggests correcting to -nivahena. We suggest instead, if our reading vivāhena is correct, to interpret it as corresponding to Sanskrit vivāhyena. saha ca bhatuhi sapacacatuṁhi Āyu-vadhanikaṁ Āyuvadhakaṁ Sankaranarayanan had already suggested in a note: The lost letter may be restored as ni. tuva tura-maṁḍale tuvare vihāra-maṁḍale -vadhamāne bhagavato -vadhagavato Sankaranarayanan makes clear in his n. 2 that The three letters which are lost here are obviously māne Bha. selamayo selāmayo Āyaka-khaṁbho Āya-khabho Sankaranarayan rightly notes: The broken portion of the pillar here must have been big enough to accommodate five letters. But as the usual expression is āyaka-khabha or -skaṁbha, only one letter viz. ka appears to have been lost. Thus the last line appears to have been engraved in the middle.

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant! Fifth — 5th — victorious year of King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla, first — 1st — fortnight of the rainy season, first — 1st — day.

The merchant Little Dhaṁmasiri — son of the merchant Saṅghila, resident of the town Gañjikūṭa, and his wife, the merchant-wife Haṅghā — together with his wife, daughter(s), daughter(s)-in-law and son(s)-in-law, friends and relatives, and together with his brothers caused to be made in the village Tuvara in the district of in the vadhamāna of Upedagiri Skt. Upendragiri at the pavilion of the community of the Bhagavant Buddha a stone āyāka pillar, in order to increase his own lifespan and leading to victory after victory.

For other instances of the term vijayasaṁvacharaṁ (Sanskrit vijayasaṁvatsara), whose meaning is disputed, see EIAD 30, l. 3 (with note); 56, l. 2; 159, l. 14; 187, l. 29; 188, l. 31.

The name of the maṇḍala ending in -tura is reminiscent of the village name toḍatura in EIAD 31, 32 and 33.

First edited by . Re-edited and translated by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch, making use of photos of the ASI estampage, and published in 2017 on the experimental site . The XML source code from was adapted for DHARMA by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier in 2025.

62B349At first sight it seems that 1936-37: B.352 gives either part of the right side of line 1 of the same inscription, but in reality it must represent another pillar inscription that would have overlapped with the text of EIAD 2 whose ASI estampage must have been collected on the same occasion. 1 692