EIAD 40. Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00040.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Pillar from monastic hall of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa DHARMA_INSEIAD00040

Copyright (c) 2017 by Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

 DHARMAbase EFEO EIAD 40 Nagarjunakonda Museum 636

Encoded in TEI/EpiDoc according to the DHARMA Encoding Guide for Documentary Editions, version 2

EIAD file transformed to follow the DHARMA encoding structure. Metadata extracted to be checked and updated according DHARMA workflow. Done through XSLT.
mahārājasa Asamedhayājisa Anekahiraṁṇakoṭipadāyisa siricaṁtamulasa sahodarā bhagini mahāsenāpatisa mahātalavarasa vasiṭhīputasa pūkīyānaṁ kaṁdasirisa bhariyā mahātalavari cāṁtisiri Apano jāmātukasa raṁño māṭhariputasa Ikhākunaṁ sirivirapurisadatasa Āyuvadhanīke vejayike ca Ubhayalokahitasukhanivāṇathanāya i
-mulasa-mūlasamahātalavarasa vasiṭhī-mahātalavaravasiṭhī-pūkīyānaṁpūkiyānaṁ-sirisa-sirīsaThe appearance of a long ī on the estampage used by Vogel was probably due to the crack in the stone.ApanoApaṇosirivira-sirivira--vadhanīke-vadhanikeConstraint of space above the nī may have caused the engraver to choose a peculiar moon-shape form for his ī. There is another case of such an ad hoc shape in ni in l. 8.ApaṇoThere is no objective reason for favoring Vogel’s restitution of this particular form/spelling of the personal pronoun here, since other instances in the corpus could be invoked to support restoring Atano or Apano.iThis line is not recorded by . In the light of parallel passages for the formula -nivāṇathanāya Imaṁ selakhaṁbhaṁ patiṭhapitaṁ ti, we expect the isolated vowel i here to have been part of the word patiṭhapitaṁ.

Cāntisirī — uterine sister of Great King Siri-Cāntamūla, sacrificer of the Aśvamedha, giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of) gold; wife of the Great Talavara Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kandasiri of the Pūkīyas, Great-Talavara-wife — in order to increase the lifespan and leading to victory after victory of her son-in-law, King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus ... and (for the sake of her own) well-being and happiness in both worlds and nirvāṇa ...

First described and edited by : 65-6 (M1). Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.

: 175 (i): no. 30: no. Naga 19: 126-7 (no. 3)