Memorial pillar from Gangaperuru

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00078.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [1+][1×]r[.] Ācariyana(ṁ) putasa ⟨2⟩ (na)radasagotasa sivadā(sa) gogaha(ṇa)⟨3⟩sagām(e) saga(gatasa) chāy(ā)khaṁbh(o)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [1×] r[.][.]ura Srinivasan 1965–1966; (pari) Parabrahma Sastry 1977. — ⟨1⟩ Ācariyana(ṁ)Ācariyanaṁ Srinivasan 1965–1966; Ācariya Parabrahma Sastry 1977.

⟨2⟩ naradasagotasa ⬦ sudasa gonasa Srinivasan 1965–1966; bhārādasa gotasa Parabrahma Sastry 1977. — ⟨2⟩ sivadā(sa) • We expect sivadā(sa)⟨sa⟩, a clear instance of haplography. — ⟨2⟩ gogaha(ṇa)gogahane Srinivasan 1965–1966; (gārgabha) Parabrahma Sastry 1977.

⟨3⟩ saga(gata)sa ⬦ sagaha(ta)sa Srinivasan 1965–1966; -sa ge [2×](sa) Parabrahma Sastry 1977. — ⟨3⟩ chāy(ā)khaṁbh(o)chāyakhaṁ(bha) Srinivasan 1965–1966; chāya khaṁbha Parabrahma Sastry 1977.

Translation

Memorial pillar of Sivadāsa of the Nārada gotra, son of the (...) masters, who died (lit. went to the heavens, svargagata) in battle, (on the occasion of) a cattle raid.

Bibliography

First edited by Srinivasan 1965–1966 and then by Parabrahma Sastry 1977, p. 1 (1). Although no reference is made to any previous edition, Parabrahma Sastry’s 1977 publication almost certainly concerns the same inscription as that published by Srinivasan. It is re-edited here from published documentation.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1939–40: 228, B.17.

Parabrahma Sastry, P. V. 1975. Department of archaeology and Museums, Andhra Pradesh: Annual report on epigraphy, 1967. Epigraphical Series 10. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 366.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 178 (59A).