EIAD 12. Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00012.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6 Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

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sidhaṁ namo bhagavato devarājasakatasa saṁmasaṁbudhasa dhātuvaraparigahitasa mahācetīyamhi mahārajasa virūpakhapatimahāsenāparigahītasa AgihātaAgiṭhomavājapeyāsamedhayājisa hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa savathesu Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhīputasa Ikhākusa siricāṁtamūlasa sodarāya bhaginiya haṁmasiriya bālikā mahārajasa māḍharīputasa sirivirapurisadatasa bhayā mahādevi chaṭhisiri Apano mātaraṁ haṁmasiriṇikaṁ parināmetuna Atānaṁ ca nivāṇasaṁpatisaṁpādake Imaṁ bhaṁkhaṁ patiṭhapitaṁ mahārājasa sirivirapurisadatasa sava 6 vāpa 6 diva 10
dhātuvaraparigahitasadhātuvaraparigaṁhitasamahācetīyamhimahādetiyaṁhiVogel emends to mahācetiyaṁhi.-mahāsenā--mahāsena-Agihāta-Emend Agihota-.sodarāya bhaginiyasodarābhaginiyaThe emendation is supported by EIAD 5, l. 5 sodaraya bhaginiya.haṁmasiriyaWe suspect the engraver started writing a si, but stopped after the first short horizontal stroke.AtānaṁAtanaṁIt is perhaps not necessary to emend Atano, as proposed by Vogel in his n. 6, because Atānaṁ can be a gen. pl. form and confusion of number is not unusual. The parallel passage in EIAD 5, l. 7, which mentions the same mother Hammasirī, here has Atane.bhaṁkhaṁEmend khaṁbhaṁ, as proposed by Vogel in his n. 7.divadāvaThe first akṣara is clearly da. Vogel emends to diva.

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, worshipped by the king(s) of the gods, the Perfect Buddha who is ensconced in the excellent relic [or: element (i.e., nirvāṇadhātu)]!

At the Great Shrine, the Great Queen Chaṭṭhisirī — child of Hammasirī, uterine sister of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, favored by Mahāsena who has Virūpākṣa as his lord, sacrificer of the Agnihotra, the Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya and the Aśvamedha, giver of tens of millions of (pieces of) gold, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters; wife of Great King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta — having dedicated (the merit) to her mother Hammasiriṇṇikā and for achieving the fortune of nirvāṇa for herself, established this pillar.

In the 6th year of Great King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 6th fortnight of the rainy season, on the 10th day.

Note use of title mahārāja for Siri-Vīrapurisadatta here; elsewhere, he is rājā.

First described and edited by : 14, 20 (C4). Re-edited here from the Leiden estampage and after autopsy of the stone.

: no. 15: no. Naga 15: 87-8 (no. 9)