Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00073.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ magalaraṇavathavasa raṭhikasa ⟨2⟩ (putasa) [1×](patuma) [1×](bhaḍa) [1×] ⟨3⟩ [2×](ma)[10×] ⟨4⟩ cha(yakha)[bho]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (putasa)(harakasa) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964. — ⟨2⟩ (patuma)[1×]pasadatana Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • The fourth akṣara be read as a sa, as in EIAD 71. — ⟨2⟩ (bhaḍa)[1×](patata)- identifier • The third akṣara could be reconstructed as [naṁ].

⟨3⟩ [2×](ma)[10×]na(ṁ) maḍa . . . . . . . . Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar suggests an emendation of ma into bha.

⟨4⟩ cha(yakha)[bho]chha(ya)-kha(bha) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Memorial pillar of the ... soldier(s) of the governor (raṭhika) Puta Patuma.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 16 (6.B.IV). 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.33.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 64.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 172 (no. 55).