Memorial pillar from Gangaperuru

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00078.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [1+][1×]r[.] °ācariyana(ṁ) putasa ⟨2⟩ (na)radasagotasa sivadā(sa) gogaha(ṇa)⟨3⟩sagām(e) saga(gatasa) chāy(ā)khaṁbh(o)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [1×] r[.][.]ura Srinivasan; (pari) Parabrahma_Sastry1977. — ⟨1⟩ °ācariyana(ṁ)°ācariyanaṁ Srinivasan; °ācariya Parabrahma_Sastry1977.

⟨2⟩ naradasagotasa ⬦ sudasa gonasa Srinivasan; bhārādasa gotasa Parabrahma_Sastry1977. — ⟨2⟩ sivadā(sa) • We expect sivadā(sa)⟨sa⟩, a clear instance of haplography. — ⟨2⟩ gogaha(ṇa)gogahane Srinivasan; (gārgabha) Parabrahma_Sastry1977.

⟨3⟩ saga(gata)sa ⬦ sagaha(ta)sa Srinivasan; -sa ge [2×](sa) Parabrahma_Sastry1977. — ⟨3⟩ chāy(ā)khaṁbh(o)chāyakhaṁ(bha) Srinivasan; chāya khaṁbha Parabrahma_Sastry1977.

Translation

Memorial pillar of Sivadāsa of the Nārada gotra, son of the (...) masters, who died (lit. went to the heavens, svargagata) in battle, (on the occasion of) a cattle raid.

Bibliography

First edited by Srinivasan and then by Parabrahma_Sastry1977. Although no reference is made to any previous edition, Parabrahma Sastry’s 1977 publication almost certainly concerns the same inscription as that published by Srinivasan. It is re-edited here from published documentation.

Secondary

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1939–40: 228, B.17.

Parabrahma_Sastry1975

Raghunath2001