Memorial pillar from site 60 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00076.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [si](dhaṁ) (<symbol>)mahāse(nāpa)tisa mahātala[va](ra)[sa] ⟨2⟩ [1×](raka)ha(ko)ḍuvakasa °aya(bhuti)sa ⟨3⟩ chāy(ekha)bha (<symbol>)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [si]⟨Fragment left⟩(dhaṁ)(-)... Sircara • Sircar however notes: ““The damaged word here may be sidhaṁ.”” — ⟨1⟩ mahātala[va](ra)[sa]mahātala... Sircara • Sircar notes: ““the lost aksharas are no doubt -varasa.””

⟨2⟩ [1×](raka)- ⬦ (°arakama)- Sircara • Sircar notes: ““Better read Arakasa separately from the compound.””

⟨3⟩ chāy(ekha)bha ⬦ chayakhabho Sircara.

Translation

Success! Memorial pillar of the Great General, the Great Talavara ...rakahakoḍuvaka Ayabhuti (Āryabhūti).

Bibliography

First described and edited by Sircara. Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar 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.83.

Srinivasan1979a

Raghunath2001