Pillar from site 5 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 2

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00045.

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Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ namo bhagavato ⟨2⟩ budhasa mahārajasa virupakhapatimahāsena⟨3⟩parigahitasa Agihotagiṭhomavājapeyasamedha⟨4⟩yājisa hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasaha⟨5⟩la(sa)tasahasapadāyisa savathesu Apa⟨6⟩tihatasaṁkapasa vāseṭhiputasa Ikhākuna(ṁ) si⟨7⟩rica(ṁ)tamulasa suṇh(ā)ya mahārājasa ⟨8⟩ māḍhariputasa Ikhākunaṁ sirivirapu⟨9⟩risadatāsa bhayāya mahādeviya bha⟨10⟩ṭidevāya deyadhamo Ayaṁ devīvi⟨11⟩hāro savajātāniyuto Ajariyānāṁ ba⟨12⟩husutiyana(ṁ) patiṭhapito raño siriEhu⟨13⟩vuḷacatamulasa savacharaṁ bitiya gimhapakha ⟨14⟩ chaṭha(ṁ) divasaṁ dasamaṁ <symbol><scroll>

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ virupakha- ⬦ vir[ū]pakha- Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨3⟩ Agihotagiṭhomavājapeyasamedha- ⬦ Agihot⟨ā⟩giṭhomavājapey⟨ā⟩samedha- Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨4⟩ hiraṁṇa- ⬦ hiraṇa- Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨9⟩ -datāsa ⬦ -datasa Vogel 1931–1932 • In light of the fact that all other gen. sg. forms of -a stems in this inscription have endings in -asa, one should probably follow Vogel’s silent emendation here. Gen. sg. forms in -āsa are, nevertheless, attested in Mathurā inscriptions (see Damsteegt 1978, pp. 97–99; von Hinüber 2001, p. § 305), so one could see in this text and in EIAD 82, l. 3 and 320, l. 1 attestations of a residual presence of this ending in the corpus.

⟨11⟩ savajātāniyuto ⬦ savajātaniyuto Vogel 1931–1932 • One should probably follow this silent emendation by Vogel, in light of the fact that the two other instances of the compound in donations to the same nikāya read savajātaniyuto (EIAD 44, l. 8; 46, l. 6).

⟨11-12⟩ bahusutiyana(ṁ) ⬦ bahusutiy⟨ā⟩na(ṁ) Vogel 1931–1932.

⟨11⟩ Ajariyānāṁ ⬦ ajariyānaṁ Vogel 1931–1932 • Note the unusual spelling with j.

⟨13⟩ savacharaṁ ⬦ sa[ṁ]vachara Vogel 1931–1932.

Translation

(1) Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha.

(1–12) The Great Queen Bhaṭidevā — daughter-in-law of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, favored by Mahāsena who has Virūpākṣa as his lord, sacrificer of the Agnihotra, the Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya and the Aśvamedha, giver of tens of millions of (pieces of) gold, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters, wife of Great King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus — established as pious gift this Queen’s monastery, equipped with everything, for the Bahuśrutīya masters.

(12–14) In the second year of king Siri-Ehuvuḷacāntamūla, in the sixth fortnight of the hot season, on the tenth day.

Bibliography

First described by Vogel 1931–1932, pp. 62–3 (G3). Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 37.

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 43.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 131–2 (no. 28).

Soundara Rajan, K. V. 2006. Nagarjunakonda (1954–60), volume II: The historical period. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 75. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 163, 166.

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[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-5

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