EIAD 259. Fragment from the Amaravati stūpa author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — EXC3061. Principal investigator: Vincent Tournier DHARMA Munich DHARMA_INSEIAD00259.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

Lettering compatible with a dating to the 3rd century CE.

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tayasa cetiyaṁ madhā vetika ca paṭa
tiyasa yasa cetiyaṁ cetiya cetiya madhā madhā madhā The meaning of this word is unclear at the moment, and the reading is not entirely certain. suggests it stands for Skt. madhya, but one would rather expect majha. A possible alternative would be medhi/medhī, meaning a pillar (, s.v. medhi) or a concentric gallery of a stūpa (, s.v.). As far as we know, this term is however not attested in the epigraphic corpus. ca paṭa capa capa The term paṭa was likely followed by deyadhama. This reconstruction is supported by EIAD 274.

Pious gift of a madhā and a vedikā slab for the Shrine of …

This edition by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in March 2025.

268 29 270 IV G, 17 304 125 222 Amar 7 B.498 86 90