EIAD 21. Pillar from vihāra of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 15 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00021.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Pillar from vihāra of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 15 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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Atichita m anāgatavaṭamānak Apano ca Ubhayalokahitasukhanivāṇathanāya mahāvihāre mahācetiyapādamūle ghavajitānaṁ nānādesasamanāgatānaṁ mahābhikhusaṁghasa sela raṁño sirivirapurisadatasa vasasatāya sava 105vāpa Aparamahāvinaseliyānaṁ parigahe sacātusāla patithapita ti
Atichitam anāgatavaṭamānakAtichitam-anāgata-vaṭamānakeApanoApanomahācetiyapādamūlemahācetiyapādamuleghavajitānaṁpavajitānaṁ Vogel’s reading is a silent emendation; emend accordingly. selaparigaheThe akṣara read as pa by Vogel, while ambiguous in the estampage, is rather clearly a se on the stone itself. This solves the problem of the repetition of parigahe in the inscription. 6. The reading may be restored selamaṁṭava, by comparison with EIAD 28, l. 2, or selamaṁḍavo, on the basis of EIAD 20, l. 3.vasasatāya savavasasanāya saṁvapatithapita tipatithapitaṁti

... past, future and present members ... for the sake of well-being and happiness in both worlds and nirvāṇa for herself, in the Great Monastery, at the base of the Great Shrine, ... a stone (pavillion) ... for great community of monks (consisting) of renunciants who come from various countries, in the 15th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta — may he live one hundred years! —, in the ... fortnight of the rainy season ..., in the possession of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas, together with a quadrangular compound ... established ...

vasasatāyaSee : 1. This word occurs also in EIAD 30 and 242. One might at first be tempted to translate may he reign one hundred years!, but 160, l. 2 vāsasatāyuka speaks for the interpretation preferred here.

cātusālaThis word seems to denote a building with rows of cells on all sides. For a ground plan indicating the referent of this gift, see : pl. LXVIII.

First described and edited by : 66 (M3); re-edited here from the published estampage and after autopsy of the stone.

: 175 (iv): no. 19: no. Naga 21: 106 (no. 12)