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

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00024.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

Fragment Upper half

⟨1⟩ [13+](ma)hāsena(par)igahītasa ⟨2⟩ [16+][°asa]⟨Fragment left⟩(m)[e]dhayāj(i)sa ⟨3⟩ [11+](sa)hasahalasatasaha(sa)⟨Fragment right⟩[2+] ⟨4⟩ [8+][°apati]⟨Fragment left⟩(ha)tasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhī(p)[u]⟨Fragment right⟩[tasa] ⟨5⟩ [13+][bha]⟨Fragment left⟩gi(n)i ma(h)⟨Fragment right⟩[āsenāpatisa]

Fragment Lower half

⟨1⟩ [16+]⟨Fragment left⟩(ka)[ṁdasirisa] ⟨Fragment right⟩[2+] ⟨2⟩ [5+][khaṁdasāgaraṁṇaka]⟨Fragment left⟩(mā)tā cātisiri °a(pa)⟨Fragment right⟩[no] [1+] ⟨3⟩ [10+][raṁño] [māṭharipu]⟨Fragment left⟩tasa °ikhāku(naṁ) ⟨4⟩ [10+][°āyu]⟨Fragment left⟩vadhanīke vijayavejayike ⟨5⟩ [10+][su]⟨Fragment left⟩khanivāṇathanāya (bhagava)to ⟨6⟩ [14+][ma]⟨Fragment left⟩(hāce)tiyapādamūle ⟨7⟩ [pavaji]⟨Fragment left⟩(tānaṁ) nānā(de)sasa(ma)⟨Fragment right⟩[nāgatānaṁ] [8+] ⟨8⟩ °api ca °apano °ubhayakulasa °at⟨Fragment right⟩[ichita] [6+] ⟨9⟩ nikapanīke parinām(e)tuna [13+] ⟨10⟩ parigahe savani(y)uta[ṁ] cātusālapa(r)[i]gah(ita)[ṁ] s[e]⟨Fragment right⟩[lamaṁṭava] ⟨11⟩ patiṭhapitaṁ (ra)[ṁño] [si]rivirapurisadatasa sa(ṁ)va 105vāpa 8(d)i(va) [1×]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ -sena(par)igahītasa- ⬦ -senā[pati pari]gahītasa- Sarkar1969

⟨1⟩ (ka)[ṁdasirisa][kaṁdasirisa] Sarkar1969

⟨2⟩ cātisiri °a(pa)[no]cāṁtisiri °apa[ṇo] Sarkar1969 • Our restitution of no is supported by °apano in l. 6.

⟨5⟩ (bhagava)to • Thus Sarkar. The reading prima facie seemed extremely unlikely; we seemed rather to read sathamatā, but could not recognize a sense in this reading. Given the probability of parallelism with EIAD 28, we have decided to accept Sarkar’s reading.

⟨6⟩ -mūle ⬦ -mūli Sarkar1969

⟨9⟩ parinām(e)tuna ⬦ parinametuna Sarkar1969

⟨10⟩ cātusālapa(r)[i]gah(ita)[ṁ] s[e]⟨Fragment right⟩[lamaṁṭava]cātusālaparigahitasa … Sarkar1969 • We restore on the basis of the parallelism in EIAD 28.

⟨11⟩ patiṭhapitaṁ (ra)[ṁño][si]ri- ⬦ patiṭhapitaṁ (si)rivirapurishadatasa Sarkar1969 • We restore on the basis of the parallelism in EIAD 28.

Translation

... Cāntisirī — ... sister of ... Vāsiṭṭhīputta ... favored by Mahāsena ... sacrificer of ... the Aśvamedha ... thousands ... and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters; ... of Kandasiri ... Great (General); ... mother of (Khandasāgaraṇṇaka) — for the increase of the (lifespan) and leading to victory after victory of her own ... (King) Māṭharīputta of the Ikṣvākus ... for the sake of ... happiness ... and nirvāṇa, at the base of the Great Shrine of the Bhagavant ... (consisting) of renunciants who come from various countries – having dedicated (the merit) to the past ... of her family on both sides and to nikapanīka ... established ... in the possession of ... a stone pavillion equipped with everything, enclosed by a quadrangular compound. In the 15th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 8th fortnight of the rainy season, on the ... day.

Commentary

The text is parallel to EIAD 28. According to Sarkar, to this same group of fragments may also belong EIAD 38 (Vogel’s M14), but we reject this hypothesis.

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Bibliography

Fragments first described and edited individually by Vogelb, then pieced together by Sarkar1969, who gives the first reconstruction of the inscription. Re-edited here after Sarkar’s plate I.

Secondary

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001

Notes

  1. 1. The alignment of fragments M10 with M5 by Sarkar1969 seems mistaken. We believe M10 needs to be moved down by 2 lines hence making it no longer attachable to M5, with as result a text rather closely reflecting that preserved in EIAD 28.