EIAD 346. Fragment from Amaravati, 1st c. CE
Version: (99dfc27), last modified (ce35bbc).
Edition
⟨1⟩ […]sa gaha(pa)[ti][…]
⟨2⟩ […]sabhāri(ya)[sa] […]
⟨3⟩ […]thaṁbho O[varako][…]
Apparatus
Translation
Pillar ⟨and⟩ cell of the householder […], with his wife […].
Bibliography
Deciphered by Burgess (1887). This digital edition from the published estampage.
Primary
[B] 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 (37).
Secondary
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 155, item 1302.
Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996, 1998, 2003. Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū インド仏教碑銘の研究 (A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions). 3 vols. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Volume I, item Amar 94.
Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 170, item 270.
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<note>Another fragmentary inscription whose support is definitely a pillar (<ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00395.xml">EIAD 395</ref>), like the present one ends with the vowel <foreign>O</foreign> before a gap. If Burgess' conjecture for the present inscription is correct, then the same restitution probably applies in both cases.</note>
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<p>Burgess (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:Burgess1887_01"/></bibl>) commented: <quote>This is on a broken fragment in the steps of a well near the village. <gap reason="ellipsis"/> Perhaps the gift of a pillar and a cell.</quote></p>
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<p>Deciphered by Burgess (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:Burgess1887_01"/></bibl>). This digital edition from the published estampage.</p>
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Commentary
Burgess (1887) commented: “This is on a broken fragment in the steps of a well near the village. … Perhaps the gift of a pillar and a cell.”