EIAD 92. Beam, doorstep or maṇḍapa pillar from site 23 at Nagarjunakonda

EIAD 92. Beam, doorstep or maṇḍapa pillar from site 23 at Nagarjunakonda author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00092.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 Beam, doorstep or maṇḍapa pillar from site 23 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.

Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa DHARMA_INSEIAD00092

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DHARMAbase EFEO EIAD 92 Nagarjunakonda Museum in fortification enclosure

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bu na hathikasa budharakhitasa

nagutara

bu nabu … This could could possibly be an abbreviation for buddhāya namo.

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

Nagutara (Nāgottara).

The three graffiti of block 1 noticed in 1959-60. The fourth graffito, or block 2, perpendicular to the others, was added in 1976-77: B.2. Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

: 189 (no. 73)