EIAD 255. Decorated octagonal pillar from Amaravati EpiDoc Encoding Arlo Griffiths intellectual authorship of edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00255.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

Lettering typical of the 1st century CE.

Encoded in TEI/EpiDoc according to the DHARMA Encoding Guide for Documentary Editions, version 2

 encoded the inscription

Aya-retiyā Atevāsiniyā Aya-dhamāya dānaṁ

Gift of the noble Dhammā, pupil of the noble Retī.

For the contents, compare EIAD 131 and EIAD 334. The inscription EIAD 256 was added at a later time above the present one.

First edited and translated by Eugen Hultzsch whose own publication () appeared a bit later than the first work dedicated to Amaravati by James Burgess (), who made use of readings and translations furnished by Hultzsch. This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from published estampages, from photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

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