Āyaka pillar from Jaggayyapeta — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 20

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00032.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [sidhaṁ] [~][raño] [māḍha]⟨Fragment left⟩r(i)putasa Ikhākunā(ṁ) sirivīrapurisadatasa sa[ṁ](vachara) (20)[vāsāpakhaṁ] [6] ⟨2⟩ divasaṁ 10kaṁmākaraṭhe gāme toḍatūre vathavasa Āvesaṇisa nākacaṁdasa puto game mahāka[ṁ](ḍu)⟨3⟩rūre vathavo Āvesani sidhatho Apaṇo mātaraṁ nāgilaniṁ purato kātūṇa gharaṇiṁ ca samudani⟨ṁ⟩ ⟨4⟩ bālakaṁ ca mulasiriṁ bā(l)i[kāṁ] [ca] [nākabudhan](i)[kaṁ] [bhātukaṁ] [ca] [budhinakaṁ] [tasa] [gha]ra(ni) Ekaṁṇikaṁ bālakā ca ⟨5⟩ nagasiri caṁdasiri bālika ca sidhathanikaṁ Evaṁ nātimitasaṁbaṁdhivagena saha game v[e](lag)i(r)i(ya)⟨6⟩ bhagavato budhasa mahācetiye puvadāre Āyakakhaṁbhe paṁca 5savaniyute Apaṇo deyadhaṁmaṁ ⟨7⟩ savasatāṇaṁ h(i)tasukhāya patiṭhapit(a) ti <symbol>

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ikhākunāṁ ⬦ Ikhākuṇām Burgess 1887. — ⟨1⟩ sa[ṁ](vachara 20)saṁv[.][2×]r [2×] Burgess 1887. — ⟨1⟩ [vāpa 6] • This segment is not restored by Burgess.

⟨2⟩ kaṁmākaraṭhe ⬦ kaṁmākarathe Burgess 1887. — ⟨2⟩ toḍatūre ⬦ ṇaḍatūre Burgess 1887. — ⟨2⟩ game ⬦ gāme Burgess 1887 • Silent emendation.

⟨2-3⟩ mahāka[ṁ](ḍu)rūre ⬦ mahāka [1×][.]u rūre Burgess 1887.

⟨3⟩ mātaraṁ ⬦ mataraṁ Burgess 1887. — ⟨3⟩ kātūṇa ⬦ kātūnaṁ Burgess 1887. — ⟨3⟩ gharaṇiṁ ⬦ gharaniṁ Burgess 1887. — ⟨3⟩ samudani⟨ṁ⟩samudani Burgess 1887.

⟨4⟩(l)[kāṁ]bālai [1+] Burgess 1887. — ⟨4⟩ [gha]rani ⬦ [1+]raniṁ Burgess 1887. — ⟨4⟩ Ekaṁṇikaṁ ⬦ ca kaṁṇikaṁ Burgess 1887.

⟨5⟩ saha ⬦ sahā Burgess 1887. — ⟨5⟩ v[e](lag)i(r)i(ya)ṁ ⬦ ve(la)[.]iri [1×] Burgess 1887.

⟨6⟩ mahācetiye puvadāre ⬦ mahācetiyapuvadāre Burgess 1887. — ⟨6⟩ Apaṇo ⬦ Āpaṇo Burgess 1887.

⟨7⟩ patiṭhapita ti — ⬦ paṭith(a)pita ti Burgess 1887.

Translation

(1–2) (Success!) In the 20th year of king Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus, (in the 6th fortnight of the rainy season), on the 10th day.

(2–7) The artisan (āvesani) Sidhatha (Siddhārtha), resident in Big Kāṇḍurūra, son of the artisan Nākacanda (Nāgacandra), resident in in the village Toḍatūra in the province (raṭha) Kammāka, together with his mother Nāgilani as the foremost, and (his) distinguished wife (gharaṇī) Samudani, and (his) son Mūlasiri, (and his) daughter (Nākabudhanikā), and (his) brother Budhinnaka, (and) the latter’s) wife Ekanikā, and sons Nāgasiri (and) Candasiri, and daughter Sidhathanikā — thus together with the group of kinsmen, friends and relatives, established in the village Velagiri, at the eastern gate of the Great Shrine of the Bhagavant, the Buddha, 5 āyaka pillars, equipped with everything, as his pious gift, for the well-being and happiness of all beings.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Bühler 1882, pp. 258–9 (II), followed by Burgess 1882, pp. 55–6 (reading and translation by Bhagvanlal Indraji) and then Burgess 1887, pp. 110–1 (2) (new reading, with Bühler’s translation). Re-edited here from the estampage published by Burgess.

Secondary

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