# EIAD 41. Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — presumably of
the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00041

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00041.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⟩ [si](dha)ṁ namo bhagavato saṁmasabudhasa dhātuvaraparigahitasa
mahāce(t)ī[ye] ⟨2⟩ [virūpakhapa]timahāsenaparigahītasa
A(g)ihotāgiṭhomavā(ja)[peyasamedhayājisa] ⟨3⟩
[gosata](sa)hasaha(la)[satasahasahasapadāyisa]

## Translation

⟨1⟩ Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the Perfect Buddha, who is
ensconced in the excellent relic [or: element (i.e., nirvāṇadhātu)]!

⟨1–3⟩ At the Great Shrine, ... favored by Mahāsena who has (Virūpākṣa)
as his lord, (sacrificer of) the Agnihotra, the Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya
(and the Aśvamedha), (giver of hundreds of thousands of cows and
hundreds of) thousands of plows (of land)…

## Bibliography

First described by Vogel 1929–1930, p. 14 (D3), but without edition of
the text. We edit it for the first time from the Leiden estampage.

### Secondary

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 68.