Conch-shell from site 29 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00023.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ Ucc(i)takaṇasa(kha)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ucc(i)ta- ⬦ Uccita- Sarma 1970Sarma 1970 alternatively proposes to read raccita-. — ⟨1⟩ -sa(kha)-saro Sarma 1970.

Translation

Uccitakaṇa’s conch.

Bibliography

The first serious reading to be published was that of Sarma 1970, pp. 2, caption of fig. 3. Re-edited here after autopsy of the object.

Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1958–59: 8.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. Ābhīras 4.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 165 (no. 48.2).

Soundara Rajan, K. V. 2006. Nagarjunakonda (1954–60), volume II: The historical period. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 75. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 225.