Buddhapāda from Phanigiri

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00109.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ bhayata (kacana)sa natukasa bodhikasa deyadhaṁmaṁ padasa(ṁ)ghaḍa

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhayata ⬦ bhaya[ṁ]ta Hinüber2013b. — ⟨1⟩ (kacana)sa ⬦ [3+] sa Hinüber2013b. — ⟨1⟩ deyadhaṁmaṁ ⬦ deyadhama Hinüber2013b. — ⟨1⟩ padasa(ṁ)ghaḍa ⬦ pādasaghāḍa Hinüber2013b • There is in fact not a single ā in the inscription, so this lack of representation of the long vowels might be considered a practice of the lapicide.

Translation

Success! (This) pair of feet as pious gift of Bodhika, grandson of the venerable Kaccāna (Skt. Kātyāyana).

Bibliography

First described and edited by Chenna_Reddy2008. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

Secondary

Hinüber2013b

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 2004–05: 206 (6).