# EIAD 90. Āyāka pillar from Jaggayyapeta

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00090

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00090.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⟩ […] ⟨Fragment left⟩ [1×] ⟨Fragment right⟩ […] ⟨2⟩ […] ⟨Fragment
left⟩ (k)[ā]tūnaṁ gharaniṁ ca sa ⟨Fragment right⟩ [mudaniṁ] […] ⟨4⟩ […]
⟨Fragment left⟩ nāt(i)m(i)tasa(ṁ)ba(ṁ)dhivagena sa ⟨Fragment right⟩ [ha]
[…] ⟨5⟩ […][mahācetiyapuvadā] ⟨Fragment left⟩ re Ayakakhaṁbhe
5saveni(y)[u] ⟨Fragment right⟩ te […] ⟨6⟩ […][savasa] ⟨Fragment left⟩
tānaṁ hitasukhāya pati(ṭha)[pita] [ti] [∥][⁓]

## Commentary

Except in a brief catalog entry, this fourth Āyāka pillar from
Jaggayyapeta appears to be entirely unmentioned in the literature. What
remains of the text is completely parallel to EIAD 31, 32 and 33. The
text being intact in those inscriptions, we refer to them for a
translation.

## Bibliography

Unpublished. Edited here from our photographs.

### Secondary

Gupta, S. S. 2008. Sculptures and antiquities in the Archaeological
Museum, Amarāvatī. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. Page 52 (no. 316).