Slab from Ghantasala

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00100.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

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 Vogel [1956] 1947–1948.

⟨1–2⟩ [Apa]rasеliyānaṁ ⬦ [Apa]rasеliyānaṁ Vogel [1956] 1947–1948 • 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 Vogel [1956] 1947–1948. — ⟨5⟩ pavajiti(k)[āya]pavajiti(ka) Vogel [1956] 1947–1948.

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 Vogel [1956] 1947–1948, pp. 3–4 (D); edited again with slight modifications by Somasekhara Sarma 1974, p. 3 (D). 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.

Srinivasan, P. R. and S. Sankaranarayanan. 1979. Inscriptions of the Ikshvāku period. Epigraphical Series 14. Hyderabad: Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.

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 4.

Raghunath, K. 2001. The Ikṣvākus of Vijayapuri: A study of the Nagarjunakonda inscriptions. Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers. Page 192 (no. 81).