# EIAD 71. Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00071

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00071.xml

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

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## 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

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & 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).