Āyaka pillar from site 9 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00079.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ […]rinaṁkānaṁ mulasirinaka(sa) sidhatha⟨2⟩kasa cadamukhasa pudhiṁnakasa bālika ⟨3⟩ maha(tu)vaṇika sidhaṭhaṁṇikā jakha(s)[i](r)[i][…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mulasirinaka(sa)mūlasirinaka(sa) Vogelb.

⟨2⟩ pudhiṁnakasa ⬦ pudhinakasa Vogelb. — ⟨2⟩ bālika • Vogel suggests to emend bālikā.

⟨3⟩ jakha(s)[i](r)[i][…]ya ⬦ jakhana Vogelb • The akṣara we read as (s) is flat and poorly realized. Our reconstruction is influenced by jakhasiriya in EIAD 49.

Translation

... the mahātuvaṇikā Sidhaṭhaṁṇikā, daughter of Pudhinnaka, (and related to?) Mūlasirinnaka, Sidhathaka (Skt. Siddhārthaka), (and) Cadamukha (Skt. Candramukha) of the ...rinaṁkas, (and) Jakhasiri (Yakṣaśrī) ...

Commentary

Bibliography

First edited and described by Vogelb. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Srinivasan1979a

Raghunath2001

Tsukamoto1996

Notes

  1. 1. Sidhaṭhaṁṇikā might well be the same individual also known from a set of Jaggayyapeta inscriptions (EIAD 31–33, 90). Indeed, not only she appears there as daughter of Budhinnaka (of which Pudhinnaka is naturally an orthographic variant), but also as the cousin of a Mūlasiri (possibly identical to Mūlasirinnaka), niece of the artisan Sidhathaka — the main donor of the inscribed āyaka pillars found at Jaggayyapeta — and sister of Candasiri, which may or may not be identical to Cadamukha. A Jakhasiri is also known in the Alluru inscription EIAD 49, l. 3, where it however appears among name different to the group active at Jaggayyapeta. The term mahātuvaṇikā, possibly a title, remains obscure at present.