EIAD 58. Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00058.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta 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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sidhaṁ .mahārajasa virūpakhapatimahāsenaparigahitasa Agihotagithomavājapeyāsamedhayājisa hiranakoḍigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa savathesu Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāseṭhīputasa Ikhākusa siricatamūlasa bhaginiya mahātalavarasa vāsiṭhīputasa kaṁdasirisa bhariyāya mahatalavariya maharajasa
mahārajasamahārājasavirūpakhapatimahāsena-… sena-Here, and in the following lines, the text is restored on the basis of EIAD 13, which opens in a similar way.Agihotagithoma-Agihotāgiṭhoma--vājapeyāsamedhayājisa-vāja …hiranakoṭigosatahiranakoḍigosatahalasatasahasapadāyisahala …hatasakapasahatasaṁkapasavāseṭhīputasa Ikhākusa siricatamūlasavāse … cātamūlasamahātalavarasa vāsiṭhīputasa kaṁdasirisamahātalavarasa … sirisaOur restoration assumes that the epithet pūkīyānaṁ, frequently occurring after vāsiṭhīputasa, was here omitted, as it is in EIAD 18, l. 6.hatalavariyahātalavariyaThe occurrence of maharajasa at the end of the line diverges from the usual formula, and as a result we cannot propose a secure reconstruction.maharajasamahārājasa

Success! (...), sister of Great King Vāsi(ṭhīputa) (Siri-)Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, favored by favored by (Mahā)sena (who has Virūpākṣa as his lord, sacrificer) of the Agnihotra, the Agniṣṭoma, the Vāja(peya and the Aśvamedha, giver of) tens of millions of (pieces of) gold, (hundreds of) thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters, wife of Great Talavara (Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kanda)siri, Great-Talavara-wife ... of Great King.

First described and edited by : 13, 17–8 (B1). Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

: 33: no. Naga 10: 156 (no. 40)