# EIAD 346. Fragment from Amaravati, 1st c. CE

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00346

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00346.xml

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

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## Palaeographic description

Lettering typical of the 1st century CE.

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ […]sa gaha(pa)[ti][…] ⟨2⟩ […]sabhāri(ya)[sa] […] ⟨3⟩ […]thaṁbho
O[varako][…]

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ O[varako] B • Another fragmentary inscription whose support is
definitely a pillar (EIAD 395), like the present one ends with the vowel
O before a gap. If Burgess’ conjecture for the present inscription is
correct, then the same restitution probably applies in both cases.

## Translation

Pillar ⟨and⟩ cell of the householder […], with his wife […].

## 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.”

## 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.