Pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — presumably of the reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00026.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [7+]⟨Fragment B⟩[3×]⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨2⟩ [mahāce]⟨Fragment left⟩(ti)yapāda(mūle) pa(va)ji⟨Fragment left⟩[tānaṁ] […] ⟨3⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩savasā[dhū](naṁ) mahā[bhi]khusaṁ(gha)⟨Fragment right⟩[sa] […] ⟨4⟩ ⟨Fragment A⟩nikapa(ni)[ke] ⟨Fragment B⟩ca pari(nā)metuna ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨5⟩ pariga(he) ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨6⟩ patiṭha(pi)⟨Fragment right⟩[taṁ] […] ⟨7⟩ vāpa 8[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [3×] Sarkar1969(putasa) Vogelb.

⟨3⟩ savasā[dhū](naṁ)sa vasā Vogelb; savasā[dhunāṁ] Sarkar1969.

⟨4⟩ nikapa(ni)[ke] Sarkar1969nikapa[nīke] Vogelb. — ⟨4⟩ pari(nā)metuna Vogelbparinametuna Sarkar1969.

⟨6⟩ patiṭha(pi) Sarkar1969Vogelb does not record this line of fragment M12.

Translation

... at the base of Great Shrine ... having dedicated ... of the great community of monks (consisting) of all good renunciants ... and to nikapanīka ... in the possession ... established ... in the 8th fortnight of the rainy season ...

Commentary

Bibliography

Fragments first described and edited by Vogelb, then pieced together by Sarkar1969. Re-edited here from Sarkar’s plate II (vii) and after autopsy of the original.

Secondary

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001

Notes

  1. 1. According to Sarkar, our fragment EIAD 35 (Vogel’s M11) probably belongs to this inscription.