KnI0273 buddhapāda

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00273.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (0ca1d9c).

Edition

⟨1⟩ <nandyāvarta> [si](dha) bodhiparigāhakasa vāṇiyasa budhilasa payasaghādo deyadhama <svastika>

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ <nandyāvarta> [si](dha)[…] net IAR. — ⟨1⟩ bodhiparigāhakasa ⬦ bodhiparigrahakasa IAR • This epithet may be compared to sihāsanaparigahaka- occurring in EIAD 468 and on a potsherd from Salihundam. Cf. Strauch forthcoming, Sal039 . Allusions to the bodhi-tree or to bodhi-tree shrines may be found in KnI 278: bodhirukhapeḍhikā_c(e)tiA, EIAD 20, l. 3: sīhaḷavihāre _ bodhirukhapāsādā; EIAD 592: saghadāsīya bodhiya (d)umaṁ. — ⟨1⟩ vāṇiyasa ⬦ vaniyasa IAR. — ⟨1⟩ payasaghādo ⬦ payasa pato IAR. — ⟨1⟩ deyadhama ⬦ deyadhama IAR.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! A pair of [Buddha] foot[-prints]: the pious gift of the merchant Buddhila, who is in possession (or: in charge) of the Bodhi[-tree].

Commentary

Bibliography

Primary

[IAR] IAR 2000-01. Indian Archaeology 2000-01: A Review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2006. Page 77.