# EIAD 37. Stone from site 9 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00037

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00037.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ kumarasa viraAr(ibha) […]

## Translation

Success! Of the prince Vīra-Aribha° (...)

## Bibliography

First edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, pp. 19–20 (7.B.III). Re-edited
here from our photos of the ASI estampage.

### Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological
Survey of India. Pages 1958–59: 6.

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 66.

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 67.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 124 (no.
20).

Soundara Rajan, K. V. 2006. Nagarjunakonda (1954–60), volume II: The
historical period. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 75. New
Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 172.