# EIAD 72. Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00072

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00072.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (ma)va(la)raṇa_vathava(sa) (se)nāpat(i) ⟨2⟩ [1×]karadaru_kumārasa
_[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

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & 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).