Slab with Buddha image in high relief said to be from Ghantasala
Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00131.
Hand description:
Lettering typical of the 2nd century CE.
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).
Version: (77e39b7), last modified (139433a).
Edition
⟨1⟩ dha(ṁ)makatikaya parabudhay(ā)ya ⟨2⟩ Atevās(i)kāya cul(ā)ya paṭimā
Translation by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier
Image [gifted] by Cullā, female pupil of the dharma reciter Parabudhāyā.
Bibliography
First described and edited in a Japanese newspaper called Bukkyo times by Akira Sadakata, whose reading is cited (but without any diacritics or editorial apparatus) in Miyaji Akira 宮治 昭 and Nakano Genzō 中野 玄三 1998. This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.
Secondary
Miyaji Akira 宮治 昭 and Nakano Genzō 中野 玄三. 1998. Budda ten: ōinaru tabiji / ブッダ展: 大いなる旅路 / Buddha: the spread of Buddhist art in Asia. Tokyo: NHK プロモ-ション (NHK Promotions). Item 20, page 46.
Okada, Amina. 2000. Sculptures indiennes du Musée Guimet. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Item 19, pages 56–58.
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[2] Raghunath no.:
[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.:
[4] Tsukamoto no.:
[5] Lüders no.:
[6] Support : Buddha in stone, on the base
[7] (Faces:) Lines: 2
[8] H: 77.5
[9] W: 31.5
[10] D: 14
[11] H: 8
[12] W: 23.5
[13] Language(s): MIA
[14] Original locality: Ghantasala (?)
[15] Present locality: Musée Guimet 17850
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[17] Secondary bibliography: Amina Okada catalog
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This is a rare inscription where the senior figure, to whom is attached a female donor as pupil (antevāsinī), is herself female. Indeed, the use of the feminine dhammakathikā is unique in our corpus. See also EIAD 255 and EIAD 334; in the second case, the senior figure is marked as the donor’s preceptor (uvajjhāyinī), but she is herself a disciple of a senior monk.