# EIAD 43. Buddha image from Nagajunakonda (?)

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00043

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00043.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

### Column A

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

### Column B

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

### 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Previously unpublished; edited here from our photographs and after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.

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