EIAD 289, dome slab fragment 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_INSEIAD00289.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ [si]dhaṁ ⁓ | mugudasā(ma)putasa marāmupa(h)[.] [*] […]

⟨2⟩ [sa](dh)[u]hutukānaṁ sasūṇhakānaṁ sanatu(kā)[naṁ] […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mugudasā(ma)- ⬦ mugudāsana- B1882; mugudasa(ma)- H; mugudasa[ma]- B1887. — ⟨1⟩ marāmupa(h)[.] ⬦ maramupa[…] B1882; marāmupa(ma) H B1887.

⟨2⟩ [sa](dh)[u]hutukānaṁ ⬦ […]putukā [1+] B1882; [sadhu]hutukānaṁ H B1887. — ⟨2⟩ sasūṇhakānaṁ sanatu(kā)[naṁ] ⬦ sasu [1+] kaṁ nasaha[ta?] […] B1882; sasuṇhikānaṁ sana(ta) […] H; sasuṇhikānaṁ sanatu(kānaṁ) […] B1887.

Translation

Success! … of Marāmupah-, son of Mugudasama (Skt. Mukundaśarman), … together with his daughter(s), his daughter(s)-in-law and his grandchildren …

Bibliography

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

Primary

[B1882] Burgess, James. 1882. Notes on the Amarāvatī Stūpa. Archæological survey of Southern India 3. Madras: E. Keys. Page 10, item 22.

[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 103, plate LVIII, item 34.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1886. “Berichtigungen und Nachträge zu den Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 40, pp. 343–6. [URL]. Page 345, item 48.

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 235, item Amar 37.

[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 145, item 1232.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 89, item 98.

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