Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00063.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ […][pera]⟨Fragment left⟩(ma)(i)bha(ḍasa) ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨2⟩ […]⟨Fragment left⟩ch(ā)yāthaṁbho

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [pera](ma)(i)bha(ḍasa)(ma)ḍabha(ḍana) Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 • We restore after the parallels in EIAD 64, l. 4 and 132, l. 2.

⟨2⟩ ch(ā)yāthaṁbho ⬦ ch(ā)yaṁthaṁbho Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

Translation

Memorial pillar of ..., ... soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi ...

Bibliography

First edited by Sircar [1963] 1961–1962. Re-edited here from published documentation.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1954–55: B.8.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1955. “Fragmentary inscriptions from Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.” In: Nāgārjunakoṇḍa Souvenir. Edited by M. Rama Rao. Guntur: B. Vandanam & P. Amerasvara Rao on behalf of the Nehru reception committee, pp. 41–45. Pages 42–3.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 60.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 161, 206 (no. 45).