Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00038.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ […][pava]⟨Fragment lost⟩jitā(naṁ) (nānāde)s(asama)⟨Fragment lost⟩[nāgatānaṁ] […] ⟨2⟩ […]⟨Fragment lost⟩Atano Ubhayakulasa ⟨Fragment lost⟩[…] ⟨3⟩ […]⟨Fragment lost⟩[1×]parināmetūnaṁ (A)⟨Fragment lost⟩[tano] […] ⟨4⟩ […]⟨Fragment lost⟩pu(ta) ⟨Fragment lost⟩[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [pava]jitā(naṁ)(nānāde)s(asama)[nāgatānaṁ]...(sa)vajātan(iyutaṁ)(catusāla) Vogel 1931–1932 • See EIAD 28, l. 2.

⟨3⟩ [1×] parināmetūnaṁ ( A)[tano](ke) parināmetuna Vogel 1931–1932 • — ⟨3⟩ pu(ta) • We tentatively follow here Vogel’s reading. This however does not seem to fit with any formula in other inscriptions in the corpus, and is hence suspect. One is tempted to read instead data(sa), but the da would be rather squeezed then and the ta asymmetrical.

Translation

... (consisting) of ... renunciants who (come) from various countries ..., having dedicated (the merit) ... of her family on both sides ..., her ... son ...

Commentary

Bibliography

First edited by Vogel 1931–1932, p. 67 (M14). Re-edited here from Vogel’s estampage.

Secondary

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

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 72.

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 32.

Notes

  1. 1. According to Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970, this fragment may belong with EIAD 24 (Vogel’s M4, M5, M10, M16, M18), but this seems impossible to us as this fragment partly covers the same text as 24.