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· <text xml:space="preserve"><body><div type="edition" xml:lang="pra-Latn"><ab><lb n="1"/><supplied reason="lost">mahā</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>r</unclear><supplied reason="lost">āja</supplied><unclear>sa</unclear> °asamedhayā<unclear>j</unclear><milestone unit="fragment" n="right"/><supplied reason="lost">isa</supplied> <supplied reason="lost">°anekahi</supplied><lb n="2" break="no"/><unclear>ra</unclear>ṇak<unclear>o</unclear>ṭ<milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><supplied reason="lost">igosatasahasahalasatasahasapa</supplied><lb n="3" break="no"/>d<unclear>ā</unclear>yisa sirica<unclear>ṁ</unclear>tamu<unclear>la</unclear><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied> <gap reason="lost" quantity="6" unit="character"/><lb n="4"/>vāsakanivaḍha<unclear>ka</unclear>sa k<unclear>a</unclear>mal<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="component"/> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="4" unit="character"/><supplied reason="lost">to</supplied><lb n="5" break="no"/>salakosalapaṭuma<unclear>gha</unclear>dhi<unclear>si</unclear>ra<unclear>sā</unclear> <supplied reason="lost">saṁpaṭi</supplied><lb n="6" break="no"/>chitasāsanasa va<unclear>radama</unclear> <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="component"/>i <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><unclear>sa</unclear> <gap reason="lost" quantity="4" unit="character"/><lb n="7"/>siripavatādhipatisa ba<unclear>hu</unclear>sa<unclear>mara</unclear> <gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><lb n="8"/><unclear>la</unclear>dhapatāpasa maṭhariputasa <supplied reason="lost">sirivira</supplied><lb n="9" break="no"/>purisadatasa savachara <num value="20">20</num><gap reason="illegible" quantity="5" unit="character"/><lb n="10"/>divasa <num value="7">7</num>thap<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>tā pat<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>mā </ab></div><div type="apparatus"><listApp><app loc="1"><lem><supplied reason="lost">mahā</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>r</unclear><supplied reason="lost">āja</supplied><unclear>sa</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">…</rdg><note>Reconstruction based on similar formula, occurring
· for instance in EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00040.xml">40</ref>.</note></app><app loc="1–3"><lem>°anekahi<unclear>ra</unclear>ṇak<unclear>o</unclear>ṭ<milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><supplied reason="lost">igosatasahasahalasatasahasapa</supplied>d<unclear>ā</unclear>yisa</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001"><unclear>ra</unclear> ṇakoṭi … <unclear>dā</unclear>
215 yis a</rdg><note>Reconstruction based on analogy with EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00040.xml">40</ref>.</note></app><app loc="3"><lem>sirica<unclear>ṁ</unclear>tamu<unclear>la</unclear><supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied></lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">siri
· caṁtamū<unclear>la</unclear> …</rdg></app><app loc="4"><lem>vāsakanivaḍha<unclear>ka</unclear>sa
· k<unclear>a</unclear>mal<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="component"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/></lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">vāsakativadantasa
· kamalaka</rdg></app><app loc="4–5"><lem><supplied reason="lost">to</supplied>salakosalapaṭuma<unclear>gha</unclear>dhisira<unclear>sā</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">salakosala
· patsaumayadhi <unclear>siri</unclear></rdg></app><app loc="5–6"><lem><supplied reason="lost">saṁpaṭi</supplied>chitasāsanasa</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">…chitasāsanasa</rdg></app><app loc="6–7"><lem>vijha<unclear>sela</unclear><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>sa<gap reason="lost" quantity="4" unit="character"/>siripavatādhipatisa</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">….....
220 siripavatādhipatisa</rdg><note>Read or emend <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">viṁjha-</foreign>. The reading <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn"><unclear>sela</unclear></foreign> is very
· uncertain, and admittedly not supported by such
· literary parallels as Rājaśekhara’s Kāvyamīmāṁsā
· (chapter 17) <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">vindhyadakṣiṇapādamahendramalayamekalapālamañjarasahyaśrīparvatādayaḥ
· parvatāḥ</foreign> or Svacchandatantra (9.37)
225 <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">vindhye śrīparvate
· caiva tathā kolagirau priye |
· gaṅgāyamunāsaṁbādhe kurukṣetre
· varānane</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="7–8"><lem>ba<unclear>hu</unclear>sa<unclear>mara</unclear><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><unclear>la</unclear>dhapatāpasa</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">bapusa ...
· ladhapatapasa</rdg><note>Restore <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">bahusamarapaṭiladhapatāpasa</foreign>?</note></app><app loc="8"><lem>maṭhariputasa</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">māṭharīputasa</rdg></app><app loc="9"><lem>20 <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/></lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">20
230 <unclear>4</unclear></rdg></app><app loc="10"><lem>thap<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>tā
· pat<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>mā</lem><rdg source="bib:Raghunath2001">thāpitā
· patimā</rdg></app></listApp></div><div type="translation"><p>On the 7th day of the … in year 20 … Māṭharīputta
· Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, (son) of the Great King Siri-Cāntamūla
· — sacrificer of the Aśvamedha, giver of numerous tens of
235 millions of [pieces of] gold, (hundreds of thousands of cows
· and hundreds of thousands of plows of land) —, who increased
· …, whose commands were received on the head by [kings of?]
· Tosala, Kosala, Paṭu, and Magadha, the overlord of the
· Viñjha (Vindhya) mountain ... and Siripavvata (Śrīparvata),
240 who has obtained majesty ... in many battles — this image has
· been established.</p></div><div type="commentary"><p n="3"><note>Our translation is based on the assumption that
· the word <foreign xml:lang="pra-Brah">putasa</foreign> has been lost in the lacuna at
· the end of this line.</note></p><p n="4"><term>k<unclear>a</unclear>mal<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="component"/></term><note>This first epithet is at present obscure to us.
· </note></p><p n="4–5"><term><supplied reason="lost">to</supplied>salakosalapaṭuma<unclear>gha</unclear>dhi-</term><note>This compound is composed of four place-names, the
245 first two of which form a pair commonly encountered
· in the literature, and discussed at length in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Lévi1923"/>:
· <citedRange>1–11</citedRange></bibl>. The third toponym, <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">paṭu</foreign>, is more
· obscure, but the <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">paṭavas</foreign> or people of Paṭu feature in
· Purāṇic lists of people living in the Vindhyas (cf. <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1971"/>:
250 <citedRange>44</citedRange></bibl>). Their exact location is uncertain.
· Finally, <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">maghadhi</foreign> seems to point to the
· inhabitants of Magadha, where the aspiration of the
· final consonant seems to have been imposed also on
· the second one. The form <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">maghada</foreign> with full
255 inversion of aspiration is encountered in the
· manuscript tradition of the Śaktisaṅgamatantra, as
· noted in <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1971"/>:
· <citedRange>85</citedRange></bibl>.</note></p><p n="5–6"><term>-sira<unclear>sā</unclear><supplied reason="lost">saṁpaṭi</supplied>chitasāsanasa</term><note>Our reconstruction here is informed by the
· occurrence of the phrase <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">sirasā
260 saṁpaṭicchitasāsana</foreign>, meaning “whose
· rule/teaching has been accepted by [the bowing
· of] the head” in Pali commentarial literature. See
· Dīghanikāyaṭṭhakathāṭikā (ed. De Silva 1970) III 158.4–5: <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">gahetabbavacano sirasā
· sampaṭicchitasāsano</foreign>; Paramatthadīpanī (ed. Bose 1934–36) I 78.8–10: <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">evaṁmahānubhāvo ti cakkaratanādisamannāgamena
265 kassaci pi pīḷaṁ akaronto va sabbarājūhi sirasā
· sampaṭicchitasāsanavehāsagamanādīhi evaṁ
· mahānubhāvo</foreign>.</note></p><p n="7–8"><term>ba<unclear>hu</unclear>sa<unclear>mara</unclear><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><unclear>la</unclear>dhapatāpasa</term><note>However we reconstruct this compound, it is clear that it offers an interesting antecedent to royal epithets bore by Viṣṇukuṇḍin rulers and Pr̥thivīśrīmūla. See, for instance, EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00181.xml">181</ref>, l. 5: <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">cānekacāturddantasamaraśatasahasrasaṅghaṭṭavijayī</foreign>; <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00186.xml">186</ref>, st. II: <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">bahusamarajayopāttonatataśrīr</foreign>; <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00189.xml">189</ref>, ll. 7–9: <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">°asakr̥danekaniśitanistriṁśasahasrasaṁkulātibhīmasaṁgrāmabhūmipratilabdhavijayī</foreign>. This feat of king Vīrapurisadatta is also likely hinted at in one of the two narrative reliefs preserved on the pillar itself, which shows the ruler riding an elephant and accompanied by soldiers.</note></p></div><div type="bibliography"><p>First published by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Raghunath2001"/>: <citedRange>121
· (no. 18), 201</citedRange></bibl>. Re-edited here from our photos of the ASI
· estampages.</p><listBibl type="primary"><bibl/></listBibl><listBibl type="secondary"><bibl><ptr target="bib:IAR"/><citedRange>1967–68: 52</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1967–68: 2–3, no. B.22</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Rosen_Stone1994"/>:
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(3) 1
(4) k(a)mal[.]2
(4–5) [to]salakosalapaṭuma(gha)dhi-3
(5–6) -sira(sā)[saṁpaṭi]chitasāsanasa4
(7–8) ba(hu)sa(mara)[2+](la)dhapatāpasa5