Drum slab from Dupadu

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00197.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Fragment left⟩samaṇikāya saghaya ya (I)darakhi(ta)ya ya d(e)yadha(ma) (pa)[ṭo]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ samaṇikāya ⬦ [siri]sama(ṇ)ṇikāya Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩ saghaya ya ⬦ sa(ṃ)ghaya śī Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩ (I)darakhi(ta)ya ya ⬦ si[m]ghapi(ya)ja Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998. — ⟨1⟩ d(e)yadha(ma)(pa)[ṭo]kiya dhamma Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998.

Translation

A slab as pious gift of ... and of the religious Saghā (Skt. Saṅghā) and Idarakhitā (Skt. Indrarakṣitā).

Bibliography

First described and edited by No name 1887–, pp. 1984–85: B.36, followed by Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998, p. 124 and then by Padmanabha Sastry 2004, p. 164 (6). Padmanabha Sastry reproduces the faulty text of the former, but with different spacing. Only the reading published in Hanumantha Rao is recorded in our apparatus.

Secondary

No name. N.d. Indian Archaeology: a review. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Pages 1976–77: 3.