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

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00035.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ […]⟨Fragment left⟩nivāṇathan(ā)ya ⟨2⟩ […][dhātuvaraparigahi]⟨Fragment left⟩tasa ⟨3⟩ […][nānādesasama]⟨Fragment left⟩nāgatānaṁ ⟨4⟩ […]⟨Fragment left⟩(sa)[ba]ṁdhiva(g)[e]⟨5⟩[na] […]⟨Fragment left⟩[1×]naṁ ⟨6⟩ […][maṁ]⟨Fragment left⟩ṭavaṁ

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ [nānādesasama]nāgatānaṁ • Restoration based on EIAD 28, l. 2. See also EIAD 38, l. 1.

⟨5⟩ (sa)[ba]ṁdhiva(g)[ena]dhiva Vogelb • See EIAD 3, l. 4: nīgasaṁbaṁdhīvagehi; 31, l. 5: nātimitasaṁ[baṁdh]ivagena.

Translation

... for the sake of the nirvāṇa ... (who is ensconced in the excellent relic [or: element (i.e., nirvāṇadhātu)]) ... who come (from various countries) ... and with the group(s) of their relatives ... a maṇḍapa.

Commentary

According to Sarkar1969, this fragment probably belongs with EIAD 26 (Vogel’s M12), but another possibility might be 024.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogelb. Re-edited here from the estampage published by Vogel.

Secondary

Sarkar1969

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996