Pillar fragment from Phanigiri
Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00120.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).
Version: (a154659), last modified (139433a).
Edition
⟨1⟩ […][.]ā vāca(kāna) [1×] ⟨2⟩ […] [.]isirina A⟨3⟩[…] (A)khaya-ni⟨4⟩[vī] […]ni ca ⟨5⟩ […] (t)āna
Apparatus
Bibliography
Estampage included in the presentation given by Munirathnam at Pondicherry in 2017, but we are not aware of this fragment having been included in any ARIE yet. What remains of the text is deciphered by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from photos provided by M.A. Vasu and Nagaraju (2024).1
Notes
- 1. The item published as EIAD 120 in Griffiths and Tournier 2017 has since been merged into EIAD 107.
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