EIAD 456, pillar fragment from the Amaravati stūpa

Authors of digital edition: Ingo Strauch, Vincent Tournier (vito).

Palaeographic description: Lettering compatible with a dating to the 1st–2nd centuries BCE.

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00456.

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Version: 2026-05-06 08:36 (906f5ff), last modified 2026-05-03 22:11 (659910f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ bahuputacetiya vesālakāni

⟨2⟩ cetiyāni

Translation

“The Bahuputra shrine ⟨and other⟩ shrines of Vaiśālī.”

Bibliography

This edition by Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in November 2025.

Primary

[G+S] Ghosh, A. and H. Sarkar. 1964–1965. “Beginnings of sculptural art in south-east India: A stele from Amaravati.” AI 20 & 21, pp. 168–177. Page 171, item A, plate XLIII.

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. Item Amar 205.

ARIE 1959–60. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1959-60. Edited by Dines Chandra Sircar. Delhi: Manager of Publications (Department of Archaeology), 1963. Item B.57 (A).

Ghosh, A. 1979. “The early phase of the Stupa at Amaravati, South-East India.” Ancient Ceylon — Journal of the Archaeological Survey Department of Sri Lanka 3, pp. 97–103. Page 103, item 41.

[S] Sarma, I. Karthikeya. 1985. “Early sculptures and epigraphs from South-East India: New evidence from Amarāvatī.” In: Indian epigraphy: Its bearing on the history of art. Edited by Frederick M. Asher and Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH; American Institute of Indian Studies, pp. 15–24. Pages 19–20, plate 26.

Gupta, S. S. 2008. Sculptures and antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, Amarāvatī. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. Pages 47–48, item 273, figure XV(c).

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 66–67, item 23.

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