Stone chattra from Phanigiri

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00112.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ k(ā)namūḷayāna [ca. 20+]ta °utaravaḍhamāne

Translation

Of Kānamūḷaya, (...), in the northern estate.

Commentary

(1) [ca. 20+]1

(1) k(ā)namūḷayāna2

Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here after autopsy of the stone.

Notes

  1. 1. Since about half of the chattra is missing, we expect a lacuna of around 20 akṣaras between the na and the ta.
  2. 2. Considering the size of the chattra, the stūpa which it crowned must have been typologically very similar to funerary stūpas enshrining the remains of local monks at other sites. In inscriptions on such stūpas or chattras, as shown by Schopen 1991, the deceased monk is commonly referred to in the genitive plural as a mark of respect for the deceased.