EIAD 272. 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_INSEIAD00272.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

muṇakala kumu puta rakasa vāniyasa kaṇhasa putasa vāniyabudhi sa-bhariya saputakasa sadhutukasa sanatukasa sa-natimitabadhavasa deyadhama mahacediya-dakhinayake divathabha

vāniyebudhi vaniya-budhisa sa-bhariya saputakasa sabhariyakaputakasa

The lamp pillar at the southern āyāka of the Great Shrine is the pious gift of ....

Provisionally deciphered and interpreted by Alexander Cunningham () based on the Mackenzie facsimile first published by James Prinsep (). This interpretation corrected on several points through without integral new reading by Heinrich Lüders (). Lüders' summary represented as a text edition in . This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier combines what seem to be the most credible readings from previous scholars in the light of the published reproductions of the Mackenzie facsimile.

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