Memorial pillar from site 60 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00076.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [si](dhaṁ) (<symbol>)mahāse(nāpa)tisa mahātala[va](ra)[sa] ⟨2⟩ [1×](raka)ha(ko)ḍuvakasa Aya(bhuti)sa ⟨3⟩ chāy(ekha)bha (<symbol>)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [si]⟨Fragment left⟩(dhaṁ)(-)... Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar however notes: ““The damaged word here may be sidhaṁ.”” — ⟨1⟩ mahātala[va](ra)[sa]mahātala... Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes: ““the lost aksharas are no doubt -varasa.””

⟨2⟩ [1×](raka)- ⬦ (Arakama)- Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • Sircar notes: ““Better read Arakasa separately from the compound.””

⟨3⟩ chāy(ekha)bha ⬦ chayakhabho Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Success! Memorial pillar of the Great General, the Great Talavara ...rakahakoḍuvaka Ayabhuti (Āryabhūti).

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, pp. 16–7 (6.C.II). Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar 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.83.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 62.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 176 (no. 58).