# EIAD 70. Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00070

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00070.xml

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

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## Edition

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

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ pā [1×] ⬦ pā(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

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & 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).