Buddhapāda from site 4 at Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00096.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sid(dhaṁ) sakasa moḍasa bakanaya budhaya pat(i)padā deyadha⟨⟨ma⟩⟩

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ moḍasa ⬦ modasa Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ bakanaya ⬦ bak(i)n(i)ya Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ budhaya ⬦ budh(i)ya Vogel 1929–1930. — ⟨1⟩ deyadha⟨⟨ma⟩⟩ • The scribe lacked space and inserted the ma below the line.

Translation

Success! (This) footprint slab (patipadā) is the pious gift of Budhā, sister (bhaginī?) of the Saka Moḍa.

Bibliography

First edited by Vogel 1929–1930. Re-edited here from photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Longhurst, A. H. 1938. The Buddhist antiquities of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa, Madras Presidency. Memoirs of the archaeological survey of India 54. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Pages 24, pl. XIXa.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 52.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 191 (no. 77).

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Page no. Naga 64.