EIAD 256, pillar from the Amaravati stūpa

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00256.

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Version: 2026-05-06 08:36 (906f5ff), last modified 2026-05-03 22:11 (659910f).

Edition

Zone A

(p)ari[…]

Zone B

śrīviprajanapriyana

Apparatus

⟨A⟩ (p)ari[…] • This fragmentary inscription—presumably a graffito—is written in a different and probably earlier hand than no. B, is interrupted by the break introduced when the pillar was split in half. Note that the estampage in Burgess 1887 is misleading: indeed, the akṣaras (p)ari stand above yana, instead of a separate face.

⟨B⟩ śrīviprajanapriyana ⬦ śrīviprajātapriyana H; śrīviprajātapriyaṁ B1887.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Arlo Griffith and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in February 2025.

Primary

[B1882] Burgess, James. 1882. Notes on the Amarāvatī Stūpa. Archæological survey of Southern India 3. Madras: E. Keys. Page 23, item 87.

[B1887] Burgess, James. 1887. The Buddhist stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Madras Presidency, surveyed in 1882. With translations of the Aśoka inscriptions at Jaugadi and Dhauli by George Bühler. Reprint New Delhi 1996. Archaeological Survey of Southern India 6. London: Trübner & Co. [URL]. Page 82, plate LVII, item 18.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Page 555, item 23.

Sivaramamurti, C. 1942. Amaravati sculptures in the Madras Government Museum. Reprints 1956, 1977, etc. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum New Series, General Section, 4. Madras: Government Museum. [URL]. Pages 295–296, item 93, items III F, 7.

Secondary

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Page 221, item Amar 4B, page 276, item Amar 181.

Lüders, Heinrich. 1912. A list of Brahmi inscriptions from the earliest times to about A.D. 400 with the exception of those of Asoka. Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archæological Survey of India 10. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. [URL]. Item 1245.

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