Pillar or slab from Kotappakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00042.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

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 von Hinüber 2017.........tiyakulikasa Munirathnam and Nagarjuna 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Notes

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