Pedestal of Buddha image from site 9 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00074.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ […]rikasa koḍabudhisa bhariyāya [2×]lāya […] ⟨2⟩ […][pa]⟨Fragment left⟩(tiṭhāv)itaṁ paḍima

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ rikasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes : ““The intended word was something like nāgarika (i.e. belonging to the city of Vijayapurī) or pāvārika (Sanskrit prāvārika) which is found in some early inscriptions (above, Vol. XIX, pp. 66 (No. I), 97). A prāvārika was probably the maker of prāvāras, i.e. cloaks used by monks.”” • — ⟨1⟩ [2×]lāya ⬦ (makā?)lāya identifier.

Translation

...lā, wife of the ...rika Koḍabudhi, established (this) image.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 19 (7.B.I). Re-edited here from the published estampages.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1958–59: no. B.77.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 55.

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Page no. Naga 57.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 173 (no. 56).