# EIAD 135. Drumslab from Buddham or Dupadu

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00135

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00135.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⟩ (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 ARIE. — ⟨1⟩ parinivutasa ⬦ pariniddhanasa ARIE.
— ⟨1⟩ (thera)sa (budhisa) ⬦ saṁbudhasa ARIE. — ⟨1⟩ vaniyiniya
(bha)[2×](E)ta(sa) ... ⬦ vanīyanīya ca … ARIE.

## 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 ARIE and in ARIE, followed by Hanumantha
Rao et al. 1998. Despite wild variation of reading, the three
publications probably all refer to the same inscription. ARIE cites
different provenance; observed at Guntur acc. To ARIE, and at the time
ARIE was compiled the stone was still in Guntur. Re-edited here from
published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.