Beam, doorstep or maṇḍapa pillar from site 23 at Nagarjunakonda

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra).

Version: 2025-09-30 03:30 (ed06ce4), last modified 2025-06-21 15:14 (9768830).

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Graffiti Block 1

⟨1⟩ bu (na)

⟨2⟩ hathikasa

⟨3⟩ budharakhitasa

Graffiti Block 2

nagutara

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bu (na) ⬦ bu … Raghunath 2001 • This could could possibly be an abbreviation for buddhāya namo.

Translation

Veneration to the Buddha (?). Of the hathika (?) Budharakhita (Buddharakṣita).

Nagutara (Nāgottara).

Bibliography

The three graffiti of block 1 noticed in ARIE. The fourth graffito, or block 2, perpendicular to the others, was added in ARIE. Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 189 (no. 73).

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[1] Inventory no. EIAD: 92

[2] Raghunath no.: 73

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: —

[4] Tsukamoto no.: —

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : beam or doorstep (or maṇḍapa pillar?)

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 3+1

[8] H: 30

[9] W: 125

[10] D: 43

[11] H: 17

[12] W: 28

[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-23

[15] Present locality: NM, in fortification enclosure

[16] Primary bibliography: ARIE 1959-60: B.88; 1976-77, B.2

[17] Secondary bibliography: Raghunath 2001: 189 (73).

[18] Visual documentation:

[19] Substance of inscription:

[20] Remarks: Fragmentary; ARIE designates support as 'broken pillar', but Sarkar 1968-71: 227 mentions "The undressed part of a maṇḍapa-pillar of the monastery at Site 23" which "contains an indistinct inscription, presumably the name of another mason", which possibly designates the present item. Fourth line, perpendicular to the others, not initially noticed in ARIE, but added in 1976-77.

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