Octagonal pillar from Nagarjunakonda — reign of Gotamīputta Siri-Vijayasātakaṇṇi, year 6

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00001.

Language: Prakrit.

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

Version: (9fa90aa), last modified (35386f0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (na)mo bhagavato °agapogalasa ⟨2⟩ raṁño gotamiputasa sirivijayasa⟨3⟩takaṁṇṇisa sava 6 gipa 4 diva vesa⟨4⟩khapuṇima

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ raṁño ⬦ raño Sarkara.

⟨2-3⟩ -satakaṁṇṇisa ⬦ -satakaṇṇisa Sarkara.

⟨3-4⟩ vesakhapuṇima ⬦ vesākhapuṇima Sarkara.

Translation

Homage to the Bhagavant, highest man! 6th year of King Gotamīputta Siri-Vijayasātakaṇṇi, 4th fortnight of the hot season, full-moon day of Vaiśākha.

Commentary

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Bibliography

First described and edited by Sarkara. Re-edited here on the basis of available documents and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Sarkar1960

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1961–62: 77.

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1962–63: no. B.147.

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001

Notes

  1. 1. According to Raghunath2001, two visarga-like dots at the end of the inscription serve to denote the end of the record, but we consider these accidental.