# EIAD 131. Slab with Buddha image in high relief said to be from
Ghantasala

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Contributor: Arlo Griffiths

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00131

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00131.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 18:13
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## Palaeographic description

Lettering typical of the 2nd century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ dha(ṁ)makatikaya parabudhay(ā)ya ⟨2⟩ Atevās(i)kāya _ cul(ā)ya paṭimā

## Translation

Image ⟨gifted⟩ by Cullā, female pupil of the dharma reciter Parabudhāyā.

## Commentary

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.

## 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 & 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 & 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.