EIAD 17. Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00017.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta 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

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

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sidhaṁ namo bhagavato saṁmasaṁbudhasa dhātuvaraparigahītasa Imamhi mahācetiye mahārajasa hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa savathesu Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsīṭhīputasa Ikhākusa siricāṁtamūlasa sodarā bhagini raṁñoṁ māḍharīputasirivirapurisadatasa pituṁcha mahasenāpatisa mahātalavarasa vāseṭhīputasa pūkīyanaṁ kaṁdasirisa bhariya samaṇabamhaṇakavaṇavaṇijakadīnānugahavelāmikadānapaṭibhāgavochinadhārapadāyini savasādhuvachalā mahātalavari khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā cātisiri parināmetunaṁ Atano ca nivā ta
mahārajasaEmend mahārājasa.mahasenā-Emend mahāsenā-.

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

At this Great Shrine, Cāntisirī — uterine sister of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, 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; paternal aunt of King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta; wife of Great General, Great Talavara Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kandasiri of the Pūkīyas; giver of an unequalled and uninterrupted stream of velāmika gifts as a favor to ascetics, brahmans, beggars, mendicants and the wretched; affectionate to (all) good people; Great-Talavara-wife, mother of Khandasāgaraṇṇaka — having dedicated ... of nirvāṇa for herself ...

First described by : 14 (D2), but without edition of the text. This was first integrally published by : 97-8 (no. 10B) = 101 (no. 10D), with two entries for this single inscription, both marred by numerous involuntary errors. We re-edit the text here from the Leiden estampage.

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