# EIAD 132. Memorial pillar from Nagarjunakonda

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00132

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00132.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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

⟨1⟩ [2+][1×][13+] ⟨Fragment right⟩ ⟨2⟩ (ga)tasa _peragaṇhasa
_pe(rama)ḷ[i]bha[ḍasa] ⟨3⟩ paḍitasa _chāy(ā)thabho

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ pe(rama)ḷ[i]bha[ḍasa] • Compare the parallel in EIAD 64, l. 4:
peramaḍibhaḍa[sa], followed by paḍitasa in l. 5. (A vestige of the same
sequence is also preserved in 63, l. 1.) The akṣara here read as (ra),
based on that parallel, looks more like tu.

## Translation

Memorial pillar of Peragaṇha, a fallen soldier [fighting under the
leadership] of Peramaḷi, gone to ...

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ peragaṇhasa[1]

## Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here from our own photographs and after
autopsy of the stone.

[1] For names with pera-, besides peramaḷi in this text and peramaḍi in
EIAD 64, see 30, l. 10 and 232.