Memorial pillar from site 61 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 13

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00052.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidham· <symbol>s(ā)misa rā(ño) (vā)se(ṭhipu)tasa °ikhāku(sa) ⟨2⟩ siri°ehavula(ca)tam(ū)lasa (savacha)ra t(e)rasa(ma) ⟨3⟩ gim(ha)ṇaṁ pakha paṁcama 5divasa sa(ta)ma 7ra(ño) ⟨4⟩ māḍharipūtasa °ikhākuṇaṁ s(i)rivirapūr(i)sadatasa ⟨5⟩ mahisija mahavalabhīkāya yakhīlinikāya pu⟨6⟩tasa mahāsenapatisa kum(ā)rasa °elī°ehavū⟨7⟩ladāsaṁṇakasa chāyāthabh(o) thāpito <symbol><symbol>

Apparatus

⟨3⟩ gim(ha)ṇaṁ ⬦ gīm(h)aṇaṁ Sircara.

⟨4⟩ -pūr(i)sadatasa ⬦ -pūrusadatasa Sircara.

⟨5⟩ mahisija • Sircar notes “Probably we should not take it as mahisi-Jamaha°” and proposes to emend mahisiya. We think ja could stand for ya.

⟨7⟩ chāyāthabh(o)chayatha(ṁ)bh(o) Sircara. — ⟨7⟩ <symbol> • The punctuation is indicated by a curved stroke preceded by visarga-like sign.

Translation

(1–3) Success! In the thirteenth year of the Lord King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Ehavulacāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, in the fifth — 5th — fortnight of summer, on the seventh — 7th — day.

(3–7) The memorial pillar of the Great General, Prince Elī Ehavūladāsaṇṇaka, son of Mahāvallabhikā Yakhīlinikā — chief queen of the King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus — was erected.

Commentary

(3) gim(ha)ṇaṁ1

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircara. Re-edited here from the published estampages and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1958–59: 6–7, no. B.79.

Srinivasan1979a

Settar1982b

Raghunath2001

Soundara_Rajan2006

Notes

  1. 1. The shape of ha is not regular. Cf. EIAD 29, l. 3 and note.