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

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00027.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (77e39b7), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [2×] ⟨2⟩ Anekahi⟨Fragment right⟩[raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa] ⟨3⟩ [pa]⟨Fragment left⟩(d)āyi(sa) […]

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ [pa]⟨Fragment left⟩(d)āyi(sa)… yi … Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970.

Translation

... giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of) gold(, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows of land) ...

Bibliography

First edited by Sarkar [1971] 1969–1970, p. 177 (M21). Re-edited here after autopsy of the fragment.

Secondary

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 39.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 110 (no. 13D) = 127 (no. 24).