# EIAD 75. Memorial stela from site 59 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00075

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00075.xml

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

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## Edition

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

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (pa)toyatakasa ⬦ pa(va)yātakasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

⟨3⟩ (ta)mal(o)yakarasa ⬦ tamaṇiyakarasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • The
first akṣara could also be read na.

⟨5⟩ chāyapaṭo ⬦ chāyatha(bha) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

## Translation

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

## Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 16 (6.C.I).
Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the
stone.

### Secondary

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 58.

Sarkar, H. 1982. “The Cāyā-Stambhas from Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.” In: Memorial
stones: A study of their origin, significance and variety. Edited by
Shadaksharappa Settar & Günther Dietz Sontheimer. I.I.A.H. Series &
South Asian Studies 2 & XI/11. Dharwad; Heidelberg: Institute of Indian
Art History, Karnatak University; South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg, pp. 199–207. Pages 204–5.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 174–5
(no. 57).

Soundara Rajan, K. V. 2006. Nagarjunakonda (1954–60), volume II: The
historical period. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 75. New
Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 192.