# EIAD 35. Pillar from 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_INSEIAD00035

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00035.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⟩ […] ⟨Fragment left⟩ nivāṇathan(ā)ya ⟨2⟩ […][dhātuvaraparigahi]
⟨Fragment left⟩ tasa ⟨3⟩ […][nānādesasama] ⟨Fragment left⟩ nāgatānaṁ ⟨4⟩
[…] ⟨Fragment left⟩ (sa)ṁ[ba]ṁdhiva(g)[e]⟨5⟩[na] […] ⟨Fragment left⟩
[1×]naṁ ⟨6⟩ […][maṁ] ⟨Fragment left⟩ ṭavaṁ

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ [nānādesasama]nāgatānaṁ • Restoration based on EIAD 28, l. 2. See
also EIAD 38, l. 1.

⟨5⟩ (sa)ṁ[ba]ṁdhiva(g)[ena] ⬦ dhiva Vogel 1931–1932 • See EIAD 3, l. 4:
nīgasaṁbaṁdhīvagehi; 31, l. 5: nātimitasaṁ[baṁdh]ivagena.

## Translation

... for the sake of the nirvāṇa ... (who is ensconced in the excellent
relic [or: element (i.e., nirvāṇadhātu)]) ... who come (from various
countries) ... and with the group(s) of their relatives ... a maṇḍapa.

## Commentary

According to Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970, this fragment probably belongs
with EIAD 26 (Vogel’s M12), but another possibility might be 024.

## Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogel 1931–1932, p. 67 (M11). Re-edited
here from the estampage published by Vogel.

### Secondary

Sarkar, H. [1971] 1969–1970. “A note on some fragmentary inscriptions
from Nagarjunakonda.” EI 38, pp. 175–178. Page 177.

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 50.

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 29.