Pillar from site 17 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00060.

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Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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⟨1⟩ [3+]⟨Fragment left⟩[2×](ca) tethika(na) [2+][2×]kā [1+][1×][1+] ⟨2⟩ [1+]⟨Fragment left⟩lasa ca bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa (Ā)gaṁtukavathave(h)i ⟨3⟩ [1+]⟨Fragment left⟩bhuṁjitavasa Akhayanivikā datā gāma(ṁ) pa⟨4⟩[2+]⟨Fragment left⟩[1×]haṁ kakolūraṁ nelācava(saṁ) ⟨Fragment right⟩[4+] ⟨5⟩ [2+]⟨Fragment left⟩[2×]ya ca Apara(ma) ⟨Fragment right⟩[7+] ⟨6⟩ [1×]s(a) ca A(khaya)n(i)v(i) dīnārimāsak(ā) divaḍhaṁ sataṁ [1×] ⟨7⟩ supayuta(ṁ) Esā ca Akhayanivī ku[l](ī)kapamukhāya(ṁ) [1×] ⟨8⟩ Anutheya ci(t)i [1×]yaṁ [.]i

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (ca) tethika(na)[2+][2×] kā [1+][1×][1+] ⬦ (ca) tethika(na) ........... na kā Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 • The passage seems parallel to EIAD 56, l. 7 (te)thikanakhati(k)āpa(hā)raḍhikā and 139, l. 3-4 tethikanak(kh)attik(ā)pahārakādi. One could read ? tikā after the gap between two fragments, but supplying a single syllable kha in the gap does not seem sufficient to fill it.

⟨2⟩ bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa (Ā)gaṁtukavathave(h)i ⬦ bhadaphula saṭhapa sa[ma]gandakavathavaki Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 • Cf. EIAD 105, l. 10: bhadaphulasaṁṭhapasa.

⟨3⟩ gāma(ṁ) pa ⬦ gāmapa Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨6⟩ dīnārimāsak(ā) ⬦ dīnārimāsakā[naṁ] Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 • But cf. EIAD 10, l. 6. — ⟨6⟩ sataṁ [1×] ⬦ sataṁ (bha) Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨7⟩ Akhayanivī ⬦ Akhayanivi Sircar [1963] 1961–1962. — ⟨7⟩ ku[l](ī)ka- ⬦ ku(li)ka- Sircar [1963] 1961–1962.

⟨8⟩ Anutheya ci(t)i [1×] yaṁ [.]i ⬦ Atatheya ci … yaṁ (hi) Sircar [1963] 1961–1962 • The last akṣara is presumably ti.

Translation

... (for) the taithika, the nā(kṣatrika ?), and for the repair of what was damaged and dilapidated; it should be enjoyed by those who (will) arrive and who (presently) reside. As permanent endowment, the village(s) of ... Kakolūra (and) Nelācavasa ... and aparama... ... a permanent endowment, (consisting in) one and a half hundred of dīnārimāṣakas, is firmly attributed to (...). And this permanent endowment is to be executed by (...) headed by the kulikas ...

Commentary

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Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar 1955, pp. 43–4 and then in Sircar [1963] 1961–1962, pp. 210–1 (III). Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone covering the lower part of the inscription.

Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1954–55: 23.

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1954–55: 13, no. B.7.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page 70.

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 51.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 158 (no. 42).

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. Page 178.

Notes

1. On the uncertain referent of kulika, a figure that maybe connected to the śreṣṭhin, see Sircar 1966, p. 165.
2. Sircar [1963] 1961–1962, pp. 210–1 sees in Apara(ma) a mention of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas. While it is at first sights tempting to follow him and reconstruct accordingly, both the rest of the text and the findspot of the inscription point to a non-Buddhist context, where the mention of a Buddhist school would be unexpected. We are therefore unable to accept Sircar’s idea.

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[2] Raghunath no.: 42

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 70

[4] Tsukamoto no.: Naga 51

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : pillar

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 8

[8] H: 102

[9] W: 49

[10] D: 22.5

[11] H: 31

[12] W: 21.5

[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-17

[15] Present locality: NM 504

[16] Primary bibliography: Sircar 1955: 43-4. — Sircar 1961-62b: 210-1 (III).

[17] Secondary bibliography: IAR 1954-55: 23. — ARIE 1954-55: 13, B.7. — Raghunath 2001: 158 (42). — Soundara Rajan 2006: 178.

[18] Visual documentation: IAR: pl. XLVI.B; Sircar 1955 (III); Sircar 1961-62b (III).

[19] Substance of inscription: gift of a permanent endowment

[20] Remarks: NM 504 only is the bottom part of the inscription.

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