Memorial pillar from site 14 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00064.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [magala]raṇavathavasa kulaputa(sa) ⟨2⟩ [1×]rabāna rajamisir(i)ka(la) [1×] ⟨3⟩ (gā)masama(ka)sa p(u)ta(sa) ⟨4⟩ si(ba)sa peramaḍibhaḍa[sa] […] ⟨5⟩ paḍitasa chāyāthaṁ[bho]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [magala]raṇavathavasa ⬦ [ga]raṇavathavasa Sircarm • Sircar restores maga⟨la⟩raṇa-. Parallel passages in EIAD 70, 71, 72 and 73, show that Sircar’s idea was basically correct, but we do not think there is any need to suppose scribal omission of the syllable la.

⟨2⟩ rabāna ra(ja)misir(i)ka(la)[1×][ma?]rabāna rājamisirikula[kasa] Sircarm.

⟨3⟩ (gā)masama(ka)sa ⬦ damasama(ka)sa Sircarm.

⟨3-4⟩ p(u)ta(sa) si(ba)sa ⬦ p(u)ta(si)sa(ba)sa Sircarm.

⟨5⟩ chāyāthaṁ[bho]chāy[ā]thaṁ[bho] Sircarm.

Translation

Memorial pillar of Siba, a fallen soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi, resident of Magalaraṇa, son of a noble family (kulaputra), son of ... of the ...rabas.

Commentary

(4) peramaḍi1

Bibliography

First described and edited by Rama_Rao1955b; edited again by Sircarm. Re-edited here from the available visual documentation 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 1954–55: B.9.

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

Srinivasan1979a

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1995–96: B.6.

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001

Notes

  1. 1. Sircarm interprets this as the name of a general and finds it reminiscent of the name “Permāḍi borne by Chālukya Vikramāditya VI and others”.