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

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00027.

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00027.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:33 (99dfc27), last modified 2026-08-26 06:33 (99dfc27).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [**]

⟨2⟩ Anekahi ⟨Fragment right⟩ [raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa]

⟨3⟩ [pa] ⟨Fragment left⟩ (d)āyi(sa) […]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ [pa] ⟨Fragment left⟩ (d)āyi(sa) ⬦ … yi … Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970.

Translation

... giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of) gold(, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows of land) ...

Bibliography

First edited by Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970, p. 177 (M21). Re-edited here after autopsy of the fragment.

Secondary

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. Page no. Naga 39.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 110 (no. 13D) = 127 (no. 24).

Display Options Word Wrap Line Numbers Comments Processing Instructions

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/schema/latest/DHARMA_Schema.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>

<?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erc-dharma/project-documentation/master/schema/latest/DHARMA_SQF.sch" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>

<?xml-model href="https://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>

<?xml-model href="https://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>

<!--Last xsl transformation: 2017-03-16T17:42:40.642+01:00

Data source: 'iksvaku-inscriptions/metadata/EIAD-inventory.xlsx'

- - - - - - - - -

[1] Inventory no. EIAD: 27

[2] Raghunath no.: 13D, 24

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: —

[4] Tsukamoto no.: Naga 39

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : pillar

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 3

[8] H:

[9] W:

[10] D:

[11] H:

[12] W:

[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-1, Monastic hall

[15] Present locality: NM 2937

[16] Primary bibliography: Sarkar 1969: 177 (M21).

[17] Secondary bibliography: Raghunath 2001: 110 (13D), 127 (24).

[18] Visual documentation:

[19] Substance of inscription:

[20] Remarks: Raghunath assigns two separates entries to a single item.

-->

<title>Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda —

presumably of the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta</title>

<resp key="creator">author of digital edition</resp>

<surname>Griffiths</surname>

</persName>

<forename>Vincent</forename>

<surname>Tournier</surname>

</persName>

</respStmt>

</titleStmt>

<authority><ref target="https://dharmalekha.info">DHARMA</ref></authority>

<pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace>

<idno type="filename">DHARMA_INSEIAD00027.xml</idno>

</publicationStmt>

<title>Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda —

presumably of the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta</title>

<surname>Griffiths</surname>

</persName>

</principal>

<surname>Griffiths</surname>

</persName>

</editor>

<forename>Vincent</forename>

<surname>Tournier</surname>

</persName>

</editor>

<forename>Stefan</forename>

<surname>Baums</surname>

</persName>

</editor>

<surname>Strauch</surname>

</persName>

</editor>

<resp key="contributor">assistance with XML encoding and metadata

verification</resp>

<forename>Chloé</forename>

<surname>Chollet</surname>

</persName>

</respStmt>

<resp key="contributor">assistance with XML encoding and metadata

verification</resp>

<forename>Marine</forename>

<surname>Schoettel</surname>

</persName>

</respStmt>

<resp key="contributor">digital humanities consultant</resp>

<forename>Emmanuelle</forename>

<surname>Morlock</surname>

</persName>

</respStmt>

<resp key="contributor">digital humanities consultant</resp>

<forename>Andrew</forename>

<surname>Ollett</surname>

</persName>

</respStmt>

</titleStmt>

<p>First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as <ref target="http://hisoma.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/EIAD/index2.html">Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.</ref>

</p>

</editionStmt>

<authority>Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa</authority>

<idno type="filename">DHARMA_INSEIAD00027</idno>

Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.</p>

<p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons

Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of

this license, visit

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send

a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street,

Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041,

USA.</p>

</licence>

</availability>

</publicationStmt>

</biblFull>

<repository>DHARMAbase</repository>

<idno/>

<idno>EIAD

27</idno>

</altIdentifier>

<repository>Nagarjunakonda Museum</repository>

</altIdentifier>

</msIdentifier>

</msContents>

<p/>

</handDesc>

</physDesc>

</msDesc>

</sourceDesc>

</fileDesc>

<p>Encoded in TEI/EpiDoc according to the <ref target="https://hal.science/halshs-02888186">DHARMA Encoding Guide for Documentary Editions, version 2</ref></p>

</encodingDesc>

<change when="2020-10-01" who="part:axja" status="draft">EIAD file transformed to follow the DHARMA encoding structure. Metadata extracted to be checked and updated according DHARMA workflow. Done through XSLT.</change>

</revisionDesc>

</teiHeader>

</facsimile>

<text xml:space="preserve"><body><div type="edition" xml:lang="pra-Latn"><ab><lb n="1"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/><lb n="2"/>Anekahi<milestone unit="fragment" n="right"/><supplied reason="lost">raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa</supplied> <lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">pa</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>d</unclear>āyi<unclear>sa</unclear> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/></ab></div><div type="apparatus"><listApp><app loc="3"><lem><supplied reason="lost">pa</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>d</unclear>āyi<unclear>sa</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Sarkar1969-1970_01">… yi …</rdg></app></listApp></div><div type="translation"><ab>... giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of)

gold(, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows of land) ...</ab></div><!--<div type="commentary">

<note>@loc = number of the line commented here in the note element.</note>

</app>

</listApp>

</div>--><div type="bibliography"><p>First edited by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sarkar1969-1970_01"/>: <citedRange>177

(M21)</citedRange></bibl>. Re-edited here after autopsy of the fragment.</p><listBibl type="primary"><bibl/></listBibl><listBibl type="secondary"><bibl><ptr target="bib:Tsukamoto1996_01"/>: <citedRange>no. Naga

39</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Raghunath2001_01"/>: <citedRange>110

(no. 13D) = 127 (no. 24)</citedRange></bibl></listBibl></div></body></text>

</TEI>