Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00073.

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⟨1⟩ magalaraṇavathavasa _raṭhikasa

⟨2⟩ (putasa) [*](patuma) [*](bhaḍa) [*]

⟨3⟩ [**](ma)[**********]

⟨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

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & 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).

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[2] Raghunath no.: 55

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 64

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[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-113

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