Drumslab from Buddham or Dupadu

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00135.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (si)dhaṁ ~namo bhagavato parinivutasa (thera)sa (budhisa) vaniyiniya (bha) [2×](E)ta(sa) [15×] ⟨2⟩ [1×]tunaṁ caṁdāya sidhaṭhiya ce [2×](ya) [2×](mara) [3×][…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (si)dhaṁ – ⬦ siddham No name 1887–. — ⟨1⟩ parinivutasa ⬦ pariniddhanasa No name 1887–. — ⟨1⟩ (thera)sa (budhisa)saṁbudhasa No name 1887–. — ⟨1⟩ vaniyiniya (bha)[2×](E)ta(sa) ... ⬦ vanīyanīya ca … No name 1887–.

Translation

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant [and to?] the completely extinguished one, the venerable Buddhi! (...) of the merchant-wife (...) of Caṁdā Sidhaṭhi (Candrā Siddhārthī) (...)

Bibliography

First described and edited by No name 1887–, pp. 1956–57: B.15 and in No name 1887–, pp. 1995–96, B.5, followed by Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. Despite wild variation of reading, the three publications probably all refer to the same inscription. No name 1887–, pp. 1995–96 cites different provenance; observed at Guntur acc. To No name 1887–, pp. 1956–57, and at the time No name 1887–, pp. 1995–96 was compiled the stone was still in Guntur. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.