Pillar from Phanigiri

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00111.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (77e39b7), last modified (0276c0d).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […](kath)[.] […] ⟨2⟩ […]sabhayākasa […] ⟨3⟩ […][2×](sa) sādhū(no) […] ⟨4⟩ […][3×]dhaṁmaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (kath)[.] • This might be reconstructed as [dhaṁma](kath)[ikasa], [dhaṁma](kath)[ikena], or the like.

⟨4⟩ [2×] dhaṁmaṁ • This is likely to stand for [deya]dhaṁmaṁ, and to be the end of the inscription.

Translation

(...) pious gift (?) (...) of the virtous (sādhu) (...), together with his wife (...), the dharmakathika (?).

Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here after autopsy of the stone.