Memorial pillar from site 36 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00068.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ khaṁdhāvārān(e) Okhaṁdhakasa Amita⟨2⟩janasa daṁpadamanasa Olabaka⟨3⟩hathigāhakasa mahāsenā⟨4⟩patisa kuḷahakānaṁ siricaṁta⟨5⟩puḷasa chāyathabho (~)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ khaṁdhāvārān(e)khaṁdhāvārāna Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

⟨2⟩ daṁpadamanasa ⬦ dapadamanasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964. — ⟨2⟩ olabaku- ⬦ olabaka- Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Success! Memorial pillar of Siri-Caṁtapuḷa of the Kuḷahakas, the attacker (*avaskandaka?) of war-camps, the tamer of the proud of (his) enemies, the seizer of olabaka (avalambaka) elephants (?), the Great General.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, pp. 13–4 (6.A). Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1959–60: B.89.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 56.

Sarkar, H. 1982. “The Cāyā-Stambhas from Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.” In: Memorial stones: A study of their origin, significance and variety. Edited by Shadaksharappa Settar and Günther Dietz Sontheimer. I.I.A.H. Series & South Asian Studies 2 & XI/11. Dharwad; Heidelberg: Institute of Indian Art History, Karnatak University; South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, pp. 199–207. Page 203.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 167 (no. 50).