Memorial pillar from Nagarjunakonda

Editors: Anonymous editor.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00132.

Language: Prakrit.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [2+][1×][13+]⟨Fragment right⟩ ⟨2⟩ (ga)tasa peragaṇhasa pe(rama)[i]bha[ḍasa] ⟨3⟩ paḍitasa chāy(ā)thabho

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ pe(rama)[i]bha[ḍasa] • Compare the parallel in EIAD 64, l. 4: peramaḍibhaḍa[sa], followed by paḍitasa in l. 5. (A vestige of the same sequence is also preserved in 63, l. 1.) The akṣara here read as (ra), based on that parallel, looks more like tu.

Translation

Memorial pillar of Peragaṇha, a fallen soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi, gone to ...

Commentary

(1) peragaṇhasa1

Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here from our own photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

Notes

  1. 1. For names with pera-, besides peramaḷi in this text and peramaḍi in EIAD 64, see 30, l. 10 and 232.