Stone stela from site 99 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 11

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00050-2.

Language: Sanskrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ siddham· <symbol><symbol>

I. Anuṣṭubh

(va)rṣa °ekā(da)śe rājñaḫ

a

p(ra)bho[r] [ehavala]śriyaḥ

b

⟨2⟩ śuklapakṣas(ya) (m)[āghasya]

c

[puṇya] [°ekādaśe] (ha)ni <symbol>

d
II. Sragdharā

⟨3⟩ (dev)e (ya)s(y)ā(t)i[bhaktir] [hutavahatanaye] caṇḍaśaktau kumāre

a

⟨4⟩ [pautras] [senāpater] (yya)s s(amara)[vijayina]ẖ kkhyātakīrtter aṇikkeḥ

b

⟨5⟩ [p](r)[āsāda](ṅ) g[ā]ṇḍ[i](p)u[t](t)ras sa talavaravaraẖ kārttikeyapprasādāt·

c

⟨6⟩ °eliśrīś śrīviśālaṁ (ś)ubhamatir akaro(t) (sa)rvvadevādhivāsam· <symbol>

d

Apparatus

⟨5⟩ -sādāt· • Chhabra notes that sandhi has not been observed at the end of pāda c, but this seems normal rather than noteworthy.

Translation

Success!

I
In the eleventh year of the king, the lord Ehavalaśrī, on the auspicious eleventh day of the bright fortnight of (month) Māgha,
II
the excellent Talavara Eliśrī, of bright intellect, whose intense devotion (is directed) towards the god Kumāra, the son of Fire, of fierce strength, grandson of the general Aṇikki who was victorious in battles and whose fame is widely known, son of Gāṇḍi, by the grace of Kārttikeya made (this) temple, abounding in good fortune, the abode of Sarvadeva (i.e. Śiva).

Bibliography

Chhabraa reported that this inscription “is found in six or seven versions, all broken fragments, not a single version having been found in its entirety. It took me some hours to dovetail the fragments till the discovered and kept in the site museum at Nāgārjunakoṇḍa. Many of the fragments are still missing. I was, however, able to restore the complete text by deciphering the extant parts on the various fragments. The facsimile on Plate A shows the greater part of one of the versions, while those on Plate B represent parts of two more versions”. The three versions whose images were published by Chhabra correspond to the three stelae we documented. See also EIAD 50-1 and 50-3. Only a synthetic edition was published by Chhabraa. This version is edited here for the first time from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1956–57: 36.

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1957–58: 3, no. B.5.

Srinivasan1979a

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1995–96: no. B.10.

Raghunath2001