Maṇḍapa pillar from site 12 at Nagarjunakonda
Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00069.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).
Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).
Edition
⟨1⟩ [3+]⟨Fragment left⟩[1×][2+](sa) ⟨Fragment right⟩[3+] ⟨2⟩ [2+][da]⟨Fragment left⟩tasa saṁvachara(ṁ) ⟨Fragment right⟩[3+] ⟨3⟩ gīmhapakhaṁ bitiyaṁ divasaṁ paḍhamaṁ 1(s)[i]⟨4⟩ripavate vijayapuriya puvadisābhā⟨5⟩ge vihāre cu(la)dhaṁmagiriyaṁ Acaṁtarājā⟨6⟩cariyānaṁ sakasamayaparasamaya(su)-
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ [2+][1×][2+](sa) ⬦ …. Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.
⟨3⟩ gīmhapakhaṁ ⬦ gimhapakhaṁ Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.
⟨3-4⟩ (s)[i]ripavate ⬦ (si)ripavate Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.
⟨6⟩ sakasamayaparasamaya(su)- ⬦ sakasamayaparasamayasa Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.
Translation
In year ? of ...data ..., in the second fortnight of summer, on the first — 1st — day. In Siripavvata (Śrīparvata), in the monastery on the Culadhamma hill in the eastern part of Vijayapurī, to the supreme teachers of kings, (who distinguish?) well (between?) their own standpoint (samaya) and the standpoint of others …
Bibliography
First edited by Sircar [1963] 1961–1962, pp. 211–2 (IV). Re-edited here from the 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 1954–55: B.10.
No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1954–55: 22.
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 45–5.
Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 25.
Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 168–9 (51).
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 172.
Tournier, Vincent. 2018. “A tide of merit: Royal donors, Tāmraparṇīya monks, and the Buddha’s awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa.” IIJ 61 (1), pp. 20–96. DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06101003. [URL]. Page 59.
Notes
- 1. See our note on this word under EIAD 20, l. 1.
- 2. Sircar [1963] 1961–1962, p. 212, who reads sakasamayaparasamayasa- suggests to reconstruct -samyakpāraga-, which is unlikely. He also did not identify literary parallels to this expression. Our understanding of this pair of notions is informed by the passage shared by Visuddhimagga 522 and Vibhaṅga-aṭṭakathā 130, and discussed in Cousins 2001, p. 170f. For a lenghtier discussion, see Tournier 2018, pp. 59, n. 107, who argues this series of titles point to Theriya-Vibhajjavādins monks.
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[1] Inventory no. EIAD: 69
[2] Raghunath no.: 51
[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 25
[4] Tsukamoto no.: —
[5] Lüders no.:
[6] Support : fragment of maṇḍapa pillar
[7] (Faces:) Lines: 6
[8] H: 32
[9] W: 21
[10] D: 16
[11] H: 35
[12] W: 21
[13] Language(s): MIA
[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-12
[15] Present locality: NM 667
[16] Primary bibliography: Sircar 1961-62b: 211-2 (IV).
[17] Secondary bibliography: ARIE 1954-55: B.10. — IAR 1954-55: 22. — Sircar 1955: 45-5. — Raghunath 2001: 168-9 (51). — Soundara Rajan 2006: 172.
[18] Visual documentation: Sircar 1955 (IV); Sircar 1961-62b (IV); Raghunath.
[19] Substance of inscription: dedication of a structure
[20] Remarks: Field register no. 214. See remarks on 063-064. ARIE is confusing about provenance; Raghunath's atribution of this pillar to Site-113 is an error. The site must be called Nagutaravihāra (occurences of nāgutara/nakutara in EIAD 80, 92.2, 220 and unnumbered potsherd).
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Commentary
The inscription abruptly ends at the end of l. 6 and the other two sides of the pillar (the fourth side is hollowed and stood against a wall) do not contain any inscribed text.
(5) Acaṁtarājā-1
(6) sakasamayaparasamaya-2