EIAD 290. Frieze from the Amaravati stūpa author of digital edition Vincent Tournier Fu Fan European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — EXC3061. Principal investigator: Vincent Tournier DHARMA Munich DHARMA_INSEIAD00290.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

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Aṁtevasikāsa mahekhānājakāsa bhāyaṁtānādhasirisa sisa bhayaṁtābudha

Aṁtevasikāsa vasikāsa antevasikāsa antevasikasa mahekhānājakāsa mahākhā(?) najakāsa maheṁkhānājakāsa mahegānājakāsa bhāyaṁtānādhasirisa bhāyatā(?) nādhasirisa bhayaṁta nādhasirisisasa sisa siso sise sisa bhayaṁtābudha yachā(?) bu bhāyaṁtā bu

... of the reverend Buddha-, disciple of the reverend Nādhasiri from Mahekhānāja, the pupil of ...

Aṁtevasikāsa: Here and in the following word, the length of the -ā in the genitive ending is unexpected. The scribe/engraver seems also to have written twice bhayaṁtā instead of bhayaṁta.

sisa: We don’t expect here the nominative form siso, so perhaps is it better to understand sisa as either an uninflected gen. sg., or perhaps rather as the product of an haplography, for sisasa.

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier and Fu Fan. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in April 2025.

12 11B 85 23 XLIII 4 551 6 268 IV E, 14 300-301 113 235 Amar 38 145 1233 202 226 155-156 236