Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00070.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (837ddf3), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ maga(la)raṇavathavasa ⟨2⟩ raṭhikasa bhatasa pā [1×][1+] ⟨3⟩ bhaḍaṇa padita(na)ṁ chāyātha(bho)

Apparatus

⟨2⟩[1×](sa) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes that “the intended word seems to be pasāditānaṁ (Sanskrit prasāditānām).”

⟨3⟩ bhaḍaṇa ⬦ bhaḍaṇa(ṁ) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Memorial pillar of the killed (pātita) soldiers (...) of the governor (raṭhika, Skt. rāṣṭrika) Bhata, resident of Magalaraṇa.

Bibliography

First edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 15 (6.B.I). 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 1956–57: B.34.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 61.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 170 (52).