EIAD 278, railing pillar from the Amaravati stūpa

Authors of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito), Fu Fan (fufa).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00278.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ [cha](dā)kicasa gahapatisa kanhatasaputasa (p)[.] […]

⟨2⟩ […] sabhāriyasa saputakasa sadhutukasa deyadhaṁma […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [cha](dā)kicasa ⬦ daki casa F • — ⟨1⟩ kanhatasaputasa ⬦ (p)[.] rana asvas F.

⟨2⟩ sabhāriyasa ⬦ na sabhariyasa F. — ⟨2⟩ sadhutukasa ⬦ sakhatakasa F. — ⟨2⟩ deyadhaṁma ⬦ deya dhama F.

Translation

… the pious gift of … the son of the notable Kanhatasa (Skt. Kṛṣṇatiṣya?), ¿from? Chadākica, together with his wife, his son(s), and his daughter(s).

Bibliography

This edition by Vincent Tournier and Fu Fan. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in April 2025.

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 Amravati. 2nd edition. London: India museum, W.H. Allen and co., publishers to the India office. [URL]. Pages 185–186, page 262, item 15, plate LIII, item 1, plate XCIX.

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. Pages 230–231, item Amar 26.

[L] 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 1220.

Knox, Robert. 1992. Amaravati: Buddhist sculpture from the Great Stūpa. London: British Museum Press. Page 45, item 2.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 88, item 96.

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