Pillar from Ghantasala

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00098.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ <symbol>°ukhasirivadhaman(e) kaṁṭakas(ā)lavatha[vena] ⟨2⟩ dhaṁmavāniyapute(na) budhisirigahapatinā [°imaṁ] ⟨3⟩ selamaṁḍapo sagaṁdhak(u)ḍivetikatoraṇo k[ārito] [ti]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ -vadhama[n]е ⬦ -vadhamāne Vogelc • No trace of ā is detectable on the stone.

⟨2⟩ -kasāla- ⬦ -kasola- Vogelc • But see Vogelc.

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 Vogelc and then by Venkataramanayya1974b. 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.91.

Srinivasan1979a

Raghunath2001

Tsukamoto1996