# EIAD 76. Memorial pillar from site 60 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00076

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00076.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⟩ [si](dhaṁ) (-)mahāse(nāpa)tisa mahātala[va](ra)[sa] ⟨2⟩
[1×](raka)ha(ko)ḍuvakasa Aya(bhuti)sa ⟨3⟩ chāy(ekha)bha (|)

## 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

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & 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).