Pillar from Ghantasala

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00098.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ ~Ukhasirivadhaman(e) kaṁṭakas(ā)lavatha[vena] ⟨2⟩ dhaṁmavāniyapute(na) budhisirigahapatinā [Imaṁ] ⟨3⟩ selamaṁḍapo sagaṁdhak(u)ḍivetikatoraṇo k[ārito] [ti]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ -vadhama[n]е ⬦ -vadhamāne Vogel [1956] 1947–1948 • No trace of ā is detectable on the stone.

⟨2⟩ -kasāla- ⬦ -kasola- Vogel [1956] 1947–1948 • But see Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, p. 68.

Translation

Success! In the estate of Ukhasiri, the notable (gahapati) Budhisiri, son of Dhaṁmavāniya, resident of Kaṁṭakasala, caused to be made this stone maṇḍapa, together with a gandhakuṭī, a railing (vedikā), and a portal (toraṇa).

Bibliography

First edited and described by Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, p. (B) and then by Somasekhara Sarma 1974, p. (B). Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1944–45: B.91.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 74.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 192 (79).

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. Ghan 2.