Pillar from Ghantasala

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00097.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)[i]dhaṁ ⁓Ukhasirivadha[mane] _kaṁṭakasalavathavеna

⟨2⟩ dhaṁmav(ā)niyaputena _budhisirigahapatinā _Imaṁ

⟨3⟩ selamaṁḍapo _sagaṁdhakuḍiv(e)tikat(o)raṇo kārito ti

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ -vadha[manе] ⬦ -vadham(ā)ne Vogel [1956] 1947–1948 • No trace of ā is detectable on the stone in the corresponding part of EIAD 98.

⟨2⟩ -kasala- ⬦ -kasola- Vogel [1956] 1947–1948 • But see Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, p. 68. — ⟨2⟩ Imaṁ • Except for a small part of I, the entire word Imaṁ still visible on the EI estampage is now broken off.

Translation

Success! In the estate of Ukhasiri, the notable (gahapati) Budhisiri, son of Dhaṁmavāniya, resident of Kaṁṭakasala, caused to be made this stone maṇḍapa, together with a gandhakuṭī, a railing (vedikā), and a portal (toraṇa).

Bibliography

First edited and described by Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, p. (A) and then by Somasekhara Sarma 1974, p. (A). His publication, which does not mention Vogel’s, seems nevertheless to be directly based on it for readings and perhaps also for the estampages. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

ARIE

Srinivasan, P. R. & S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 73.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 191 (78).

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. Ghan 1.

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[2] Raghunath no.: 78

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 73

[4] Tsukamoto no.: Ghan 1

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : white marble pillar

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 3

[8] H: 207

[9] W: 37

[10] D: 37

[11] H: 26

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[13] Language(s): MIA

[14] Original locality: Ghantasala, Ramanamma tank

[15] Present locality: Ghantasala Museum, no. 27

[16] Primary bibliography: Vogel 1947-48 (A). — Somasekhara Sarma 1974 (A).

[17] Secondary bibliography: ARIE 1944-45: B.90. — Raghunath 2001: 191 (78).

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