Beam, doorstep or maṇḍapa pillar from site 23 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00092.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

Graffiti Block 1

⟨1⟩ bu (na) ⟨2⟩ hathikasa ⟨3⟩ budharakhitasa

Graffiti Block 2

nagutara

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bu (na)bu … Raghunath2001 • This could could possibly be an abbreviation for buddhāya namo.

Translation

Veneration to the Buddha (?). Of the hathika (?) Budharakhita (Buddharakṣita).

Nagutara (Nāgottara).

Bibliography

The three graffiti of block 1 noticed in No name 1887–, pp. 1959–60. The fourth graffito, or block 2, perpendicular to the others, was added in No name 1887–, pp. 1976–77: B.2. Re-edited here from available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Raghunath2001