Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00071.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ magalaraṇava(tha)va(sa) se(nā)pat[i](sa) […] ⟨2⟩ [1×]ṭapuṭasa patu(masa) bhaḍanaṁ pa [1×][…] ⟨3⟩ (chā)jākhaṁbho

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ [1×] ṭapuṭasa ⬦ [ra]ṭapuṭasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964. — ⟨2⟩ patu(masa)pata(tanaṁ) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964. — ⟨2⟩ pa [1×]pasā.... Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes “The intended word seems to be pasāditānaṁ as in No. 1 above, though in the other record the word comes before bhaḍanaṁ.” In light of EIAD 70 and EIAD 72, it seems preferable to reconstruct pa[ditanaṁ] or pa[ḍitanaṁ].

⟨3⟩ (chā)jākhaṁbho ⬦ ..(yā)khaṁ(bho) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes that the lost akṣara is apparently chā, and we can recognise what is left of it.

Translation

Memorial pillar of the killed soldiers of the General ...ṭapuṭa Patuma, resident of Magalaraṇa.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 15 (6.B.II). Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1956–57: no. B.32.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 63.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 171 (no. 53).