# EIAD 73. Memorial pillar from site 113 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00073

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00073.xml

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

Commit: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 18:13
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## 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

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).