# EIAD 80. Āyāka frieze from site 6 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00080

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00080.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ nāmo bhagavato _Agapogalasa budhasa _chadakapavaticana
padumavāniya gharaniya sagaya _saputakāna _hagasirisa _sigasa
_nāgutarasa ca sabhaja(yā) […] ⟨2⟩ saputikāna ca _deyadhaṁma paṭo _Unisā
ca _mahācetiye _patiṭhāvito ⁓

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ nāmo ⬦ namo Vogel 1929–1930 • Emend accordingly. — ⟨1⟩
chadakapavaticana ⬦ chadakapavatic(e)na Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩
saputakāna ⬦ saputakānaṁ Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ sigasa ⬦ sagasa Vogel
1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ nāgutarasa ca sabhaja(yā) ⬦ nagatarasa ca sabhaja(sa)
Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ sabhaja(yā) ⬦ sabhajasa Vogel 1929–1930.

⟨2⟩ saputikāna ⬦ saputikāna(ṁ) Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨2⟩ deyadhaṁma ⬦
deyadham(o) Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨2⟩ Unisā ⬦ unisa Vogel 1929–1930.

## Translation

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the highest man, the Buddha. A slab
and a coping stone were established as pious gift at the Great Shrine by
Sagā, distinguished wife of (?) Padumavāniya of the Chadakapavaticas,
together with her sons, (i.e.) Hagasiri, Siga and Nāgutara, together
with their wifes (...), and together with their daughters.

## Commentary

[1]

## Bibliography

First edited and described by Vogel 1929–1930, p. 25 (J). Re-edited here
from published 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. 54.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 180 (61).

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note,
和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive
study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and
Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店.
Page no. Naga 46.

[1] Vogel notes: “The transcript and translation of inscriptions J and K
should be regarded as provisional”Vogel 1929–1930.