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

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00033.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

Version: (9fa90aa), last modified (35386f0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ <symbol>raño māḍhariputasa °ikhākunā sirivirapurisadatasa saṁvachara 20vāsāpakhaṁ 6divasaṁ ⟨2⟩ 10ka(ṁ)mākaraṭhe toḍature °āve⟨sa⟩nisa nākacaṁdasa pūto gāme mahākāṁḍurūre °āvesani ⟨3⟩ sidhatho °apaṇo mātaraṁ nāgilaniṁ purato kātunaṁ gharaniṁ ca samudaniṁ bālakaṁ ca mūlasiriṁ ⟨4⟩ bālikāṁ ca nākabudhanika(ṁ) bhatuka(ṁ) ca budhinakaṁ tasa gharaniṁ °ekanikaṁ bālakā ce nāgasiri caṁda⟨5⟩siri bālikaṁ ya s(i)dhathanika[ṁ] °eva[ṁ] nātimitasaṁbadhivagena saha gāme velagiriyaṁ bhagavato ⟨6⟩ budhasa mahācetiyapuvad(ā)re °āyakakhaṁbhe 5saveniyute °apaṇo deyadhaṁmaṁ savasatānaṁ hi⟨7⟩tasukhāya patiṭhapita ti <symbol><symbol>

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ 6 ⬦ 8 Burgess1887. — ⟨1⟩ °ikhākunā ⬦ °ikhākunaṁ Burgess1887.

⟨2⟩ toḍature ⬦ ṇaḍature Burgess1887. — ⟨2⟩ °āve⟨sa⟩nisa ⬦ °āvenisa Burgess1887.

⟨3⟩ °apaṇo ⬦ °āpaṇo Burgess1887. — ⟨3⟩ kātunaṁ ⬦ katūnaṁ Burgess1887.

⟨4⟩ bālikāṁ ⬦ bālikaṁ Burgess1887. — ⟨4⟩ °ekanikaṁ ⬦ ca kanikaṁ Burgess1887. — ⟨4⟩ ce ⬦ ca Burgess1887 • Emend ca.

⟨5⟩ saha ⬦ sahā Burgess1887.

⟨6⟩ saveniyute ⬦ savaniyute Burgess1887 • Emend savaniyute as in EIAD 32.

⟨7⟩ patiṭhapita ⬦ paṭithapita Burgess1887.

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 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 at 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 Bühler1882, followed by Burgess1882 (reading and translation by Bhagvanlal Indraji) and then Burgess1887 (new reading, with Bühler’s translation). Re-edited here from the estampage published by Burgess.

Secondary

Franke1896

Lüders1912

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1965–66: no. B.273.

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996

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Gupta2008