Memorial stela from site 59 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00075.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

Version: (cdf33df), last modified (35386f0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (pa)toyatakasa ⟨2⟩ °āvesanikasa ⟨3⟩ (ta)mal(o)yakarasa ⟨4⟩ m(ū)labhutasa ⟨5⟩ chāyapaṭo

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (pa)toyatakasa ⬦ pa(va)yātakasa Sircara.

⟨3⟩ (ta)mal(o)yakarasa ⬦ tamaṇiyakarasa Sircara • The first akṣara could also be read na.

⟨5⟩ chāyapaṭo ⬦ chāyatha(bha) Sircara.

Translation

Memorial slab (chāyāpaṭa) of the tamaloya-maker (?) Mūlabhuta, artisan (āvesanika) from (?) Patayataka.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircara. Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

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.82.

Srinivasan1979a

Settar1982b

Raghunath2001

Soundara_Rajan2006