# EIAD 197. Drum slab from Dupadu

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00197

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00197.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Fragment left⟩ samaṇikāya saghaya ya (I)darakhi(ta)ya ya
_d(e)yadha(ma) (pa)[ṭo]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ samaṇikāya ⬦ [siri]sama(ṇ)ṇikāya Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩
saghaya ya ⬦ sa(ṁ)ghaya śī Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩
(I)darakhi(ta)ya ya ⬦ si[m]ghapi(ya)ja Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩
d(e)yadha(ma)(pa)[ṭo] ⬦ kiya dhamma Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998.

## Translation

A slab as pious gift of ... and of the religious Saghā (Skt. Saṅghā) and
Idarakhitā (Skt. Indrarakṣitā).

## Bibliography

First described and edited by ARIE, followed by Hanumantha Rao et al.
1998, p. 124 and then by Padmanabha Sastry 2004, p. 164 (6). Padmanabha
Sastry reproduces the faulty text of the former, but with different
spacing. Only the reading published in Hanumantha Rao is recorded in our
apparatus.

### Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological
Survey of India. Pages 1976–77: 3.