# EIAD 23. Conch-shell from site 29 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00023

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00023.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ Ucc(i)takaṇasa(kha)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ucc(i)ta- ⬦ Uccita- Sarma 1970 • Sarma 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. & 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.