Pillar from Ghantasala

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00097.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: (72e3163), last modified (77e39b7).

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

No name. 1887–. Annual report on Indian epigraphy. Madras; Calcutta; New Delhi: Government of Madras; Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1944–45: B.90.

Srinivasan, P. R. and 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.