# EIAD 64. Memorial pillar from site 14 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00064

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00064.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [magala]raṇavathavasa kulaputa(sa) ⟨2⟩ [1×]rabāna rajamisir(i)ka(la)
[1×] ⟨3⟩ (gā)masama(ka)sa _p(u)ta(sa) ⟨4⟩ si(ba)sa _peramaḍibhaḍa[sa]
[…] ⟨5⟩ paḍitasa _chāyāthaṁ[bho]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [magala]raṇavathavasa ⬦ [ga]raṇavathavasa Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 •
Sircar restores maga⟨la⟩raṇa-. Parallel passages in EIAD 70, 71, 72 and
73, show that Sircar’s idea was basically correct, but we do not think
there is any need to suppose scribal omission of the syllable la.

⟨2⟩ rabāna ra(ja)misir(i)ka(la)[1×] ⬦ [ma?]rabāna rājamisirikula[kasa]
Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨3⟩ (gā)masama(ka)sa ⬦ damasama(ka)sa Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨3-4⟩ p(u)ta(sa) si(ba)sa ⬦ p(u)ta(si)sa(ba)sa Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨5⟩ chāyāthaṁ[bho] ⬦ chāy[ā]thaṁ[bho] Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

## Translation

Memorial pillar of Siba, a fallen soldier [fighting under the
leadership] of Peramaḷi, resident of Magalaraṇa, son of a noble family
(kulaputra), son of ... of the ...rabas.

## Commentary

⟨4⟩ peramaḍi[1]

## Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar 1955, p. 43; edited again by Sircar
[1963] 1961–1962, pp. 209–10 (II). Re-edited here from the available
visual documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

### Secondary

ARIE

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological
Survey of India. Pages 1954–55: 23.

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 59.

ARIE

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 59.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 162, 206
(no. 46).

[1] Sircar [1963] 1961–1962, p. 210 interprets this as the name of a
general and finds it reminiscent of the name Permāḍi borne by Chālukya
Vikramāditya VI and others.