Pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — presumably of the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00026.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [7+]⟨Fragment B⟩[3×]⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨2⟩ [mahāce]⟨Fragment left⟩(ti)yapāda(mūle) pa(va)ji⟨Fragment left⟩[tānaṁ] […] ⟨3⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩savasā[dhū](naṁ) mahā[bhi]khusaṁ(gha)⟨Fragment right⟩[sa] […] ⟨4⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩nikapa(ni)[ke] ⟨Fragment B⟩ca pari(nā)metuna ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨5⟩ pariga(he) ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨6⟩ patiṭha(pi)⟨Fragment right⟩[taṁ] […] ⟨7⟩ vāpa 8[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [3×] Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970(putasa) Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨3⟩ savasā[dhū](naṁ)sa vasā Vogel 1931–1932; savasā[dhunāṁ] Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970.

⟨4⟩ nikapa(ni)[ke] Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970nikapa[nīke] Vogel 1931–1932. — ⟨4⟩ pari(nā)metuna Vogel 1931–1932parinametuna Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970.

⟨6⟩ patiṭha(pi) Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970Vogel 1931–1932 does not record this line of fragment M12.

Translation

... at the base of Great Shrine ... having dedicated ... of the great community of monks (consisting) of all good renunciants ... and to nikapanīka ... in the possession ... established ... in the 8th fortnight of the rainy season ...

Commentary

Bibliography

Fragments first described and edited by Vogel 1931–1932, pp. 67 (M12, M15), then pieced together by Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970, p. 177 (vii). Re-edited here from Sarkar’s plate II (vii) and after autopsy of the original.

Secondary

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 26.

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Pages no. Naga 40.3 (30, 33).

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 110 (no. 13C).

Notes

  1. 1. According to Sarkar, our fragment EIAD 35 (Vogel’s M11) probably belongs to this inscription.