Āyaka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00015.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ mahārajasa °asamedhayājisa °anekahiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasata⟨2⟩sahasapadāyisa savathesu °apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhīputasa °ikhākusa ⟨3⟩ siricā(ṁ)tamūlasa duhutā raṁño sirivirapurisadatasa bhagini mahāsenāpatisa mahā⟨4⟩talavarasa mahādaṁḍanāyakasa dhanakānaṁ khaṁdavisākhaṁṇakasa bhayā mahātalavari <symbol> ⟨5⟩ °aḍavicātisiri °apano °ubhayakulaṁ parināme⟨tu⟩na °atano ca °ubhayalokahitasukhāvahathanāya ⟨6⟩ bhagavato saṁmasa⟨ṁ⟩budhasa dhātuvaraparigahītasa mahācetīye °imaṁ khaṁbhaṁ patidhapaṁta ti <symbol> ⟨7⟩ raṁño sirivirapurisadatasa saṁva 6vāpa 6diva 10

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ parināme⟨tu⟩na ⬦ parināme(tū)na Vogeld.

⟨6⟩ patidhapaṁta • Emend patiṭhāpitaṁ, following Vogeld.

Translation

(1–6) Success! Aḍavi-Cāntisirī — daughter of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, sacrificer of the Aśvamedha, giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of) gold, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters; sister of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta; wife of Great General, Great Talavara, Great Judge Khandavisākhaṇṇaka of the Dhanakas; Great-Talavara-wife — having dedicated (the merit) to her own family on both sides and for the sake of bringing about well-being and happiness in both worlds for herself, established this pillar at the Great Shrine of the Bhagavant, the Perfect Buddha who is ensconced in the excellent relic [or: element (i.e., nirvāṇadhātu)].

(7) In the 6th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 6th fortnight of the rainy season, on the 10th day.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogeld. Re-edited here from the Leiden estampage and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001