EIAD 77. Maṇḍapa pillar from site 32a at Nagarjunakonda author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00077.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Maṇḍapa pillar from site 32a at Nagarjunakonda Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

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⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ śakkramukkhyapācakā kāhvaye 8⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⎼ ⏑ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ maṇḍapa stambaśatādhikojvalaḥ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⎼ ⏑ ⏑ pūrṇṇato ⎼ ẖ kr̥tātmanānena dhr̥to dhr̥tātmanā 9⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⎼ ta ⏑ ⎼ m śobhane vihāramukkhye vigatajvarālaye ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⎼ ⏑ ⏑ ⎼ niveśitā vihārabāhā vipulārtthakāṅkṣiṇā 10
śakkramukkhya-⏑ mukkhyapācakākāhvayeUkahvaye⏑ maṇḍapa stamba-sa maṇḍapastamba-Understand maṇḍapaḥ and emend stambha-.-śatādhi-The reading tā is not entirely certain.pūrṇṇato ⎼ ẖ⎼ ⏑ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ ⎼kr̥tātmanānenajitātmanānenatana ⎼ ⏑⎼ ⏑ ⏑ ⎼ ⏑The second akṣara might be a n and the fourth might well be a m.

... to him called … (spiritually) maturing Śakra, the chief (of the gods).

… a maṇḍapa, blazing with more than a hundred pillars … full … was held firm by him whose self is firm and disciplined.

… he who seeks the interest of the many (or: a greater goal) established a wing of the monastery in the splendid chief among monasteries, dwelling of Him (i.e. the Buddha) who got rid of old age.

Sircar's representation the metrical pattern of the first line is a little bit confusing, and reveals some hesitation on his side as to the meter. He notes: The meter of the stanza is probably Pañchachāmara. It may also be Tūṇaka, though in the latter case the number of syllable in this line would be 30 while the other lines would have 24 only… If it is believed that there were nine syllables in a foot, the metre may be Kāminī as well, though such short stanzas (except Anuṣṭubh) are rarely known from inscriptions: 18 n. 4. There is no reason to doubt that there is a similar number of syllables in this line as in the others, and the preserved akṣaras of the line correspond to the pattern—consisting of the regular alternance of light and heavy syllables—of a type of Jagatī known to the Vr̥ttaratnākara. This metre is almost identical to Pañcacāmara, with the difference that syllables 5-7 have ⏑ ⎼ ⏑ instead of ⏑ ⏑ ⏑.

notes that the metre of this stanza and the following one is Vaṁśastha.

First published and edited in : 17-8 (7.A). Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the pillar.

1959-60: no. B.91: 38: no. 71: no. Naga 56: 177, no. 59