Fragments from site 34 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00062.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (a154659), last modified (77e39b7).

Edition

Fragment a

[…](virap)urusadatasa sa⟨Fragment lost⟩[vachara] […]

Fragment b

[…]bhaga(va) […]

Fragment c

[…]samuda […]

Fragment d

[…]makuda(sa) […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (virap)urusadatasa sa⟨Fragment lost⟩[vachara] Sircar [1966] 1963–1964(ti)ṭhavita(ṁ) ? • Raghunath’s reading represents the text found on No name 1887–, pp. 1959–60: B.95, i.e., the end of EIAD 36.

⟨2⟩ bhaga(va) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964baga ?Raghunath 2001, p. 190 notes: “Read Bhagavato”.

Translation

(...) year of (...) Vīrapurisadatta (...) the Bhagavant (...)

Commentary

Raghunath wrongly speaks of label inscriptions.

Bibliography

First published by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 20 (7.B.IV), whose readings are adopted here.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1959–60: B.96–99.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 32.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 190, 210 (no. 74).

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 68.