Pillar from vihāra of site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 15

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

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⟨1⟩ At(i)ch(i)[ta] [m] [anāgatavaṭamāna](k)[.] [*][*][**][**][*]
⟨2⟩ [A]pano ca Ubhayalokahitasukhanivāṇathanāya
⟨3⟩ mahāvihāre mahācet(i)yapādam(ū)le _ghavajitānaṁ
⟨4⟩ [nā] ⟨Fragment lost⟩ nādesasamanāgatānaṁ _mahābhikhusaṁghasa se(la)[***]
⟨5⟩ [raṁño] ⟨Fragment left⟩ sirivirapurisadatasa _vasasatāya _sava 105vā ⟨Fragment lost⟩ [pa]
⟨6⟩ [Aparama] ⟨Fragment left⟩ hāvinaseliyānaṁ _parigahe _sacātu(sāla)
⟨7⟩ [****](pa)tithapita ti

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ At(i)ch(i)[ta][m] [anāgatavaṭamāna](k)[.] ⬦ Atichi[tam-anāgata-vaṭamānake] Vogel 1931–1932 •

⟨2⟩ [A]pano ⬦ Apano Vogel 1931–1932 •

⟨3⟩ mahācet(i)yapādam(ū)le ⬦ mahācetiyapādamule Vogel 1931–1932 • — ⟨3⟩ ghavajitānaṁ ⬦ pavajitānaṁ Vogel 1931–1932 • Vogel’s reading is a silent emendation; emend accordingly.

⟨4⟩ se(la)[3+] ⬦ pa[rigahe] Vogel 1931–1932 • The akṣara read as pa by Vogel, while ambiguous in the estampage, is rather clearly a se on the stone itself. This solves the problem of the repetition of parigahe in the inscription. 6. The reading may be restored se(la)[maṁṭava], by comparison with EIAD 28, l. 2, or se(la)[maṁḍavo], on the basis of EIAD 20, l. 3.

⟨5⟩ vasasatāya sava ⬦ vasasanāya saṁva Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨7⟩ (pa)tithapita ti ⬦ [pa]tithapita[ṁ]ti Vogel 1931–1932 •

Translation

... past, future and present members ... for the sake of well-being and happiness in both worlds and nirvāṇa for herself, in the Great Monastery, at the base of the Great Shrine, ... a stone (pavillion) ... for great community of monks (consisting) of renunciants who come from various countries, in the 15th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta — may he live one hundred years! —, in the ... fortnight of the rainy season ..., in the possession of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas, together with a quadrangular compound ... established ...

Commentary

⟨5⟩ vasasatāya¹

⟨6⟩ cātu(sāla)²

Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogel 1931–1932, p. 66 (M3); re-edited here from the published estampage and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Sarkar, H. [1971] 1969–1970. “A note on some fragmentary inscriptions from Nagarjunakonda.” EI 38, pp. 175–178. Page 175 (iv).

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 19.

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. Page no. Naga 21.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 106 (no. 12).

Notes

1. See Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 1. This word occurs also in EIAD 30 and 242. One might at first be tempted to translate “may he reign one hundred years!”, but 160, l. 2 vāsasatāyuka speaks for the interpretation preferred here.
2. This word seems to denote a building with rows of cells on all sides. For a ground plan indicating the referent of this gift, see Sarkar 1960, p. pl. LXVIII.

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[2] Raghunath no.: 12

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 19

[4] Tsukamoto no.: Naga 21

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[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-1, Monastic hall

[15] Present locality: NM 505

[16] Primary bibliography: Vogel 1931-32: 66 (M3). — Sarkar 1969: 175 (iv).

[17] Secondary bibliography: Raghunath 2001: 106 (12).

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