EIAD 50-2. Stone stela from site 99 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 11 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00050-2.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Stone stela from site 99 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 11 Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

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siddham· ..varṣa Ekādaśe rājñaḫ prabhor ehavalaśriyaḥ śuklapakṣasya māghasya puṇya Ekādaśe hani .deve yasyātibhaktir hutavahatanaye caṇḍaśaktau kumāre pautras senāpater yyas samaravijayinaẖ kkhyātakīrtter aṇikkeḥ prāsādaṅ gāṇḍiputtras sa talavaravaraẖ kārttikeyapprasādāt· Eliśrīś śrīviśālaṁ śubhamatir akarot sarvvadevādhivāsam· .
-sādāt·Chhabra notes that sandhi has not been observed at the end of pāda c, but this seems normal rather than noteworthy.

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In the eleventh year of the king, the lord Ehavalaśrī, on the auspicious eleventh day of the bright fortnight of (month) Māgha,

the excellent Talavara Eliśrī, of bright intellect, whose intense devotion (is directed) towards the god Kumāra, the son of Fire, [who holds a] fierce spear, grandson of the general Aṇikki who was victorious in battles and whose fame is widely known, son of Gāṇḍi, by the grace of Kārttikeya made (this) temple, abounding in good fortune, the abode of Sarvadeva (i.e. Śiva).

: 147 reported that this inscription is found in six or seven versions, all broken fragments, not a single version having been found in its entirety. It took me some hours to dovetail the fragments till the discovered and kept in the site museum at Nāgārjunakoṇḍa. Many of the fragments are still missing. I was, however, able to restore the complete text by deciphering the extant parts on the various fragments. The facsimile on Plate A shows the greater part of one of the versions, while those on Plate B represent parts of two more versions. The three versions whose images were published by Chhabra correspond to the three stelae we documented. See also EIAD 50-1 and 50-3. Only a synthetic edition was published by . This version is edited here for the first time from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

1956-57: 361957-58: 3, no. B.5: no. 411995-96: no. B.10: 142-3 (no. 33)