Octagonal colonnette from Ghantasala

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00126.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ Uvās(i)kāya Ehana⟨2⟩mātūyā sivalay(e) ⟨3⟩ dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ sivalay(e)sivaliya No name 1887– • Cf. sivalā in EIAD 317. What we interpret as a vocalic marker -e is unsure, and might be an accident. We expect an ending -yā, but -ye could be possible as well.

Translation

Gift of the lay follower Sivalā (Śivalā), mother of Ehana.

Bibliography

First described and edited in No name 1887–, pp. 1956–57: no. B.41. Re-edited here from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.