Slab from Ghantasala

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00100.

Hand description:

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ paṭane pū ⟨Fragment right⟩[…][°apa] ⟨2⟩ raseliyānaṁ ma ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨3⟩ naṁ bhadaṁtanaṁda ca ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨4⟩ budhi °upajhāya(sa) ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨5⟩ vedhāya pavajiti(k)[āya] ⟨Fragment right⟩[…] ⟨6⟩ kayaṁ °ayaṁ ca ⟨Fragment right⟩[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pū ⬦ pu Vogelc.

⟨1–2⟩ [°apa]rasеliyānaṁ ⬦ [°apa]rasеliyānaṁ Vogelc • This restoration, first suggested by Vogel, appears to be confirmed by the reading °aparase[li]⟨Fragment right⟩, in a comparable context, in EIAD 594, l. 2. The latter inscription although not found in Ghantasala, mentions the ancient toponym Kaṇṭakasola. The palaeography of both inscriptions is closely related, and they also share some terminological affinity, both using the term pavajitikā. No other Seliya group is attested in the inscriptions from or related to Ghantasala.

⟨5⟩ vedhāya ⬦ vaṁdhāya Vogelc. — ⟨5⟩ pavajiti(k)[āya]pavajiti(ka) Vogelc.

Translation

Success! At Paṭana,(...) of the Aparaseliyas (...) and the Reverend Naṁda (...), of the preceptor Buddhi (...) by the renunciant -vedhā (...) and this (...).

Bibliography

First described and edited by Vogelc; edited again with slight modifications by Venkataramanayya1974b. Re-edited here from the published estampage.

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.93.

Srinivasan1979a

Tsukamoto1996

Raghunath2001