EIAD 25. Pillar from monastic hall of 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_INSEIAD00025.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Pillar from monastic hall of 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

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mahārājasa Agihotāgiṭhomavājapeyāsamedhayājisa Anekahiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahahalasatasahasapadāyisa
savathesu Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāseṭhiputasa Ikhākusa siricaṁtamūlasa sahodarā bhagini mahāsenāpatisa mahātalavarasa vasiṭhīputasa pūkīyānaṁ kaṁdasirisa bhariyā mahātalavari khaṁdasāgaraṁnagamatā cātisiri Apano jāmātukasa raṁño māṭharīputasa Ikhakunaṁ sirivirapurisadatasa Ayuvadhanike vijayavejayike Api ca Apano
mahārājasama...sapadāyisa...yi...ApatihatasaṁkapasaApatihatasaṁkapasaIkhākusaCompare EIAD 28Ikhākukulasa.sahodarābhaginisahodarabhaginivasiṭhīputasavāsiṭhīputasakaṁdasirisa bhariyākaṁdasirisa mahātalavari khaṁdasāgaraṁnagamatāmahātalavari …cātisiricāṁtisirimāṭharīputasaIkhakunaṁsirivirapurisadatasamāṭhariputasasirivirapurisadatasaThe latter restoration does not account for the space available, and comparison with EIAD 28 allows to restore ikhakunaṁ.Api ca ApanoApica ApaṇosirivirapurisadatasaWe see no trace of the akṣaras rivirapu, and do not expect the word sirivirapurisadatasa to be found in this part of the formula.

... Cāntisirī — uterine sister of (Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta) Siri‐Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, ... of Great King ... (sacrificer) of the Agnihotra, (the Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya and the Aśvamedha) giver of many times ten 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 General,) Great Talavara Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kandasiri (of the Pūkīyas); (Great-)Talavara-wife, (mother of) Khandasāgaraṇṇaka — in order to (increase the lifespan) and leading (to victory) after victory of (her son‐in‐law King) Māṭharīputta Siri‐Vīrapurisadatta (of the Ikṣvākus) ... and also ... of her own ...

: 66-8 edited separately the 5 fragments of the same inscription. In light of the improvements allowed by : 176-7’s reconstruction of the inscription, variants of the first edition have not been recorded. But Sarkar’s reconstruction is still problematic. In l. 4, of the first fragment, we expect savathesu to have occurred after -padāyisa. This suggests that either the positioning of the fragments in Sarkar’s image is wrong, or it is Sarkar’s hypothesis of M13 and M6 belonging together that is erroneous. We are inclined to prefer the second interpretation, and hence separate Sarkar’s text into section A and B, while provisionally keeping all these fragments together under one inscription number. Compare EIAD 28 for apparently parallel text.

ApatihatasaṁkapasaNote the unusual shape of t, with a loop.

ApanoNote unusually round shape of pa.

Fragments first described and edited individually by : 66-8 (M6, M7, M13, M17, M19, [M20]), then pieced together by : 176-7 (vi), who gives the first reconstruction of the inscription. Re-edited here after Sarkar’s plate VI.

: no. 29: no. Naga 40.2 (and nos. Naga 24, 25, 31, 35, 37, 38): 109 (no. 13B), 122 (no. 18A), 124 (no. 21), 128 (no. 26)