Pillar or slab from Kotappakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00042.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

Version: (cdf33df), last modified (35386f0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [3+](ha)[4+]t(ī)yakulikasa ⟨2⟩ [4+]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 Hinüber2017.........tiyakulikasa Munirathnam2002

⟨2⟩ sabhatukasa Hinüber2017sābhajhakasa Munirathnam2002.

⟨3⟩ sabhari[ya](k)asa Hinüber2017sabhari (ya)ra sa Munirathnam2002. — ⟨3⟩ ghara(ṇ)iya Munirathnam2002ghara(n)i[ya] Hinüber2017.

⟨4⟩ sadhutukasa Hinüber2017sadhujhakasa Munirathnam2002. — ⟨4⟩ -sunhaka(sa) Hinüber2017-°anhakasa Munirathnam2002.

⟨5⟩ sanatukasa Hinüber2017sanajhakasa Munirathnam2002. — ⟨5⟩ (khaṁ)bhā Munirathnam2002(tha)bhā Hinüber2017.

⟨6⟩ cha (6) Hinüber2017chathu Munirathnam2002. — ⟨6⟩ deyadha(ṁ)ma Hinüber2017deya dhaṁma Munirathnam2002

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 Munirathnam2002, then by Hinüber2017. Re-edited here from the estampages published in ARIE and IAR. Our translation very closely follows that of von Hinüber.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 2000–01: no. B.1.

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

Ramalakshman2002

Notes

  1. 1. On the meaning of this term, commonly featuring in South Indian inscriptions to characterize wives of prominent donors, see Nakanishi2014.
  2. 2. On the meaning of the term gharasunhā, see Hinüber2017.