Pillar or slab from Kotappakonda

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00042.

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⟨1⟩ [***](ha)[****]t(ī)yakulikasa
⟨2⟩ [****]sidhathasa sabhatukasa
⟨3⟩ sabhari[ya](k)asa ghara(ṇ)iya hadaya sapu-
⟨4⟩ takasa sadhutukasa sagharasunhaka(sa)
⟨5⟩ sanatukasa Ariyasaṁghasa (khaṁ)bhā cha (6)
⟨6⟩ deyadha(ṁ)ma <triratna>

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [3+](ha)[4+]t(ī)yakulikasa von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ .........tiyakulikasa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002 •

⟨2⟩ sabhatukasa von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ sābhajhakasa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002.

⟨3⟩ sabhari[ya](k)asa von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ sabhari (ya)ra sa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002. — ⟨3⟩ ghara(ṇ)iya Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002 ⬦ ghara(n)i[ya] von Hinüber 2017.

⟨4⟩ sadhutukasa von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ sadhujhakasa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002. — ⟨4⟩ -sunhaka(sa) von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ -Anhakasa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002.

⟨5⟩ sanatukasa von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ sanajhakasa Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002. — ⟨5⟩ (khaṁ)bhā Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002 ⬦ (tha)bhā von Hinüber 2017.

⟨6⟩ cha (6) von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ chathu Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002. — ⟨6⟩ deyadha(ṁ)ma von Hinüber 2017 ⬦ deya dhaṁma Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002 •

Translation

Pious gift to the noble community of monks, that is six — 6 — columns, of Siddhattha, belonging to the …tīya family, together with his brother, with his wife — the distinguished Hadā — with his son, with his daughter, with his daughter-in-law from a (respectable) house, with his grandchildren.

Commentary

Similarity of script, occurrence of the rare term sagharasuṇhā, and (near) correspondence of names of more than one donor, make it tempting to assume the protagonists of this inscription are the same as those of EIAD 298.

⟨2⟩ ghara(ṇ)iya¹

⟨4⟩ sagharasunhaka(sa)²

Bibliography

First edited by Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002, then by von Hinüber 2017. Re-edited here from the estampages published in ARIE and IAR. Our translation very closely follows that of von Hinüber.

Secondary

ARIE

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 2000–01: 161.

Ramalakshman, A. 2002. Andhra Pradesh archaeology: A review, 1987–2001. Hyderabad: Dept. of Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page 204.

Notes

1. On the meaning of this term, commonly featuring in South Indian inscriptions to characterize wives of prominent donors, see Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, pp. 16–7.
2. On the meaning of the term gharasunhā, see von Hinüber 2017, pp. 6–9.

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[2] Raghunath no.: —

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: —

[4] Tsukamoto no.: —

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : pillar or slab

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 6

[8] H:

[9] W:

[10] D:

[11] H:

[12] W:

[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: unknown

[15] Present locality: in the compound of the Trikutesvara temple, Kōṭṭappakoṇḍa, Narasaroapet Tk., Guntur Dt.

[16] Primary bibliography: Munirathnam & Nagarjuna 2002. — von Hinüber 2017.

[17] Secondary bibliography: ARIE 2001-01: B.1. —IAR 2000-01: 161. — Ramalakshman 2002: 204.

[18] Visual documentation: ARIE 2000-01, pl. I. — IAR 2000-01, pl. 107.

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