Lion sculpture from Ghantasala

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00099.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ Ukhasirivadham(ā)ne budhisirigahapatimaṁḍavasa ~

Translation

(Part) of the maṇḍapa of the notable (gahapati) Budhisiri in the estate of Ukhasiri.

Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, pp. 2–3 (C), then re-edited by Somasekhara Sarma 1974, p. 3 (C). Re-edited here from the published estampages 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: no. B.92.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Page no. 75.

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 3.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 192 (no. 80).