Buddha image

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_INSEIAD00043.

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00043.xml.

Version: 2026-08-26 06:33 (99dfc27), last modified 2026-08-26 06:33 (99dfc27).

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Column A

⟨1⟩ mahase-
⟨2⟩ napati
⟨3⟩ sūkacata
⟨4⟩ sa(cabh)ai-
⟨5⟩ ya Eli-
⟨6⟩ [*](r)[.]ya

Column B

⟨1⟩ baṁdhuvagaṁ
⟨2⟩ kaṁṇasir(i)-
⟨3⟩ puto E-
⟨4⟩ (l)[i] [**]

Column C

⟨1⟩ Elicato
⟨2⟩ vairamaḍu-
⟨3⟩ vai budha-
⟨4⟩ [pa](ṭ)[i](ma)
⟨5⟩ thāvitaṁ

Apparatus

⟨4–5⟩ sa(cabh)aiya • The reading ca (which we initially read va) is quite curious, and might need to be revised. Likewise, the akṣara we read as bhai does not have a regular shape, and the serif seems very faint. It could also be read as gai.

⟨5–6⟩ Eli[1×](r)[.]ya • Our first reading of the vocalic marker attached to the ra was -e. However, if we take into consideration the fact that the visible element might not be the upper part of the ra, it is also possible to interpret it as a ri. There is also what remains of a vocalic mark on the preceding akṣara, which could as well be interpreted as an -i. Therefore, in light of the parallel with EIAD 51, l. 11, reading mahādeviya kodaElisiriya, it is possible to suggest a reconstruction Eli[s](ir)[i]ya.

Translation

The Great General Sūkacata sacabhaiya Eli…

The group of relatives, Eli…, son of Kaṇṇasirī...

Elicata established (this) Buddha image at Vairamaḍuva.

Commentary

⟨2–3⟩¹

Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

Notes

1. In EIAD 29 we have interpreted vaira as vajira; maḍuva could here stand for maṇḍapa.

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[2] Raghunath no.: —

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: —

[4] Tsukamoto no.: —

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : Buddha in stone, around feet on base

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 3 columns— A:6, B:4, C:5

[8] H: 82

[9] W: 30

[10] D: 12

[11] H: 12

[12] W: 26

[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda (?)

[15] Present locality: NM 88

[16] Primary bibliography: unpublished

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[20] Remarks: NM register cites this as published in EI XXV, p. 19f. There is no such inscription on that page in that volume. Obviously it is a double error: the volume is actually EI XXXV, and the inscription there is that on another Buddha image (074). Attribution to site 9 in register is likewise due to confusion with 074.

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