# EIAD 27. Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda —
presumably of the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00027

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00027.xml

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

Commit: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 18:13
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [2×] ⟨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).