Pedestal of Lajjāgaurī sculpture from site 127 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00059.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha ~mahādеviya Avidhavāya j(ī)vaputāya mahārajasi(r)i(E)hava(laca)tamulapati(ya) khaṁḍuvulāya kāritā ti ~

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahādеviya ⬦ mahādеvīya Narasimhaswami 1951–1952. — ⟨1⟩ mahāraja ⬦ mahārāja Narasimhaswami 1951–1952. — ⟨1⟩ (E)hava(laca)tamula ⬦ (Ehavalacaṁtamu)la Narasimhaswami 1951–1952.

Translation

Success! The Queen Khaṇḍuvulā, whose husband is alive, whose sons are alive, wife of Great King Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, caused (this image) to be made.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Narasimhaswami 1951–1952. Part of the text is currently partly covered by the board of the display, so besides autopsy and our own photos of the stone, we rely for this re-edition on published photographs.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1940–41: B.470.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page 46.

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Page no. Naga 62.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 157, 205 (no. 41).

Soundara Rajan, K. V. 2006. Nagarjunakonda (1954–60), volume II: The historical period. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 75. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 243.