Slab from Dhulikatta with image of Mucilinda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00193.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ piṭhanaṁdiputasa duhutaya sayonija dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ piṭhanaṁdiputasa duhutaya sayonija dānaṁ ⬦ pitha nandi puthasa duhuthuya sayonija sanam KS; pitha nandi puthasa – duruthuya sayonija danam No name N.d.; piṭha naṅdi puthasa duhuthuya sayonija dānam BIA.

Translation

gahapatino pathalasa mathuya samaya danam

Bibliography

No visual documentation seems to have been published for the present inscription, for which nearly identical readings have been published. Not having identified the slab bearing this inscription, we are unable to verify the published readings. The text we propose here is an attempt to interpret and normalize the published readings.

Primary

[KS] Krishna Sastry, V. V. 1983. The proto and early historical cultures of Andhra Pradesh. Archaeological Series 58. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. [URL]. Page 145.

[ARDAM] ARDAM 1975–76. Annual report of the Department of Archaeology & Museums: Government of Andhra Pradesh 1975-1976. Edited by V. V. Krishna Sastry. Hyderabad: The Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1986. Page 8.

[BIA] Hanumantha Rao, B. S. L., N. S. Ramachandra Murthy, B. Subrahmanyam and Īmani Śivanāgireḍḍi. 1998. Buddhist inscriptions of Andhradesa. Secunderabad: Ananda Buddha Vihara Trust. Page 115, item 2.