Memorial stela from site 59 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00075.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ (pa)toyatakasa ⟨2⟩ Āvesanikasa ⟨3⟩ (ta)mal(o)yakarasa ⟨4⟩ m(ū)labhutasa ⟨5⟩ chāyapaṭo

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (pa)toyatakasa ⬦ pa(va)yātakasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

⟨3⟩ (ta)mal(o)yakarasa ⬦ tamaṇiyakarasa Sircar [1966] 1963–1964 • The first akṣara could also be read na.

⟨5⟩ chāyapaṭo ⬦ chāyatha(bha) Sircar [1966] 1963–1964.

Translation

Memorial slab (chāyāpaṭa) of the tamaloya-maker (?) Mūlabhuta, artisan (āvesanika) from (?) Patayataka.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircar [1966] 1963–1964, p. 16 (6.C.I). Re-edited here from available 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 1958–59: no. B.82.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 58.

Sarkar, H. 1982. “The Cāyā-Stambhas from Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.” In: Memorial stones: A study of their origin, significance and variety. Edited by Shadaksharappa Settar and Günther Dietz Sontheimer. I.I.A.H. Series & South Asian Studies 2 & XI/11. Dharwad; Heidelberg: Institute of Indian Art History, Karnatak University; South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, pp. 199–207. Pages 204–5.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Pages 174–5 (no. 57).

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 192.