Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00072.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ (ma)va(la)raṇavathava(sa) (se)nāpat(i) ⟨2⟩ [1×]karadarukumārasa [4×]bha(ḍa)naṁ ⟨3⟩ paḍitana(ṁ) (chā)yākhaṁbho

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (ma)va(la)raṇa ⬦ (mavala)raṇa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar suggests to emend magavalaraṇa.

⟨2⟩ [1×]-(sa) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964. — ⟨2⟩ [4×](pasa)..... Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes: “The intended word appears to be pasādita- or pasāditānaṁ as in Nos I-II above.”

⟨3⟩ (chā)yākhaṁbho ⬦ chayakhaṁbho Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Memorial pillar of the killed soldiers (...) of the General Karadarukumāra, resident of Mavalaraṇa (= Magalaraṇa).

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 16 (6.B.III). 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.31.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 57.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 172 (no. 54).