# EIAD 96. Buddhapāda from site 4 at Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00096

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00096.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ sid(dhaṁ) sakasa moḍasa bakanaya budhaya pat(i)padā deyadha⟨⟨ma⟩⟩

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ moḍasa ⬦ modasa Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ bakanaya ⬦ bak(i)n(i)ya Vogel
1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ budhaya ⬦ budh(i)ya Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩
deyadha⟨⟨ma⟩⟩ • The scribe lacked space and inserted the ma below the
line.

## Translation

Success! (This) footprint slab (patipadā) is the pious gift of Budhā,
sister (bhaginī?) of the Saka Moḍa.

## Bibliography

First edited by Vogel 1929–1930. Re-edited here from photographs and
after autopsy of the stone.

### Secondary

Longhurst, A. H. 1938. The Buddhist antiquities of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa,
Madras Presidency. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 54.
Delhi: Manager of Publications. Pages 24, pl. XIXa.

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the
Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh. Page no. 52.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the
Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 191 (no.
77).

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 64.