# EIAD 277. Railing pillar from the Amaravati stūpa

Fu Fan and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00277

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00277.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 15:27
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […](ya) Ānadamātuya dāna p(ā)tuka

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (ya) Ānadamātuya ⬦ H; akarā mātriya F. — ⟨1⟩ dāna ⬦ dānaṁ F H. — ⟨1⟩
p(ā)tuka ⬦ patika F; pātuke H.

## Bibliography

This edition by Fu Fan and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in
September 2026.

### Primary

[F] Fergusson, James. 1873. Tree and serpent worship: or, Illustrations
of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after
Christ, from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and
Amaravati. 2nd. London: India museum, W.H. Allen and co., publishers to
the India office. [URL]. Pages 189–190, page 262, item 14, plate XLIX,
item LVIII, plate 2, plate XCIX.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG
37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Page 560, item 43.

### 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.
Item Amar 25.

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]. Page 143, item
1219.

Barrett, Douglas. 1990. “Style and palaeography at Amarāvatī.” Oriental
Art 36 (2), pp. 77–82. Page 78.

Knox, Robert. 1992. Amaravati: Buddhist sculpture from the Great Stūpa.
London: British Museum Press. Pages 50–52, item 6.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of
Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced
Study. Pages 162–163, item 250.