EIAD 52. Memorial pillar from site 61 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 13 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris, Jakarta DHARMA_INSEIAD00052.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

Lettering typical of the 3rd century CE.

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sidhaM . sāmisa rāño vāseṭhi-putasa Ikhākusa siri-Ehavula-catamūlasa savachara terasama gimhaṇaṁ pakha paṁcama 5 divasa satama 7 raño māḍhari-pūtasa Ikhākuṇaṁ siri-virapūrisadatasa mahisija mahavalabhīkāya yakhīlinikāya putasa mahāsenapatisa kumārasa ElīEhavūladāsaṁṇakasa chāyā-thabho thāpito . *

gimhaṇaṁ gīmhaṇaṁ The shape of ha in gimhaṇaṁ is not regular. Cf. EIAD 29, l. 3 and note. -pūrisadatasa -pūrusadatasa mahisija Sircar notes Probably we should not take it as mahisi-Jamaha° and proposes to emend mahisiya. We think ja could stand for ya. chāyā-thabho chayathaṁbho

Success! In the thirteenth year of the Lord King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Ehavulacāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, in the fifth — 5th — fortnight of summer, on the seventh — 7th — day.

The memorial pillar of the Great General, Prince Elī Ehavūladāsaṇṇaka — son of the greatly beloved mahāvallabhikā Yakhīlinikā, chief queen of the King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus — was erected.

First described and edited by D.C. Sircar (). Re-edited and translated by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch, making use of photos of the published estampages, and after autopsy of the stone, on the experimental site . The XML source code from was adapted for DHARMA by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier in 2025.

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