Component of a stūpa ledge molding from Vardhamanukota
Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00236.
Hand description:
Lettering typical of the 1st century CE.
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).
Version: (a154659), last modified (139433a).
Edition
A. Left of the drainage hole
⟨1⟩ […]sa dānaṁ
B. Above the drainage hole
⟨1⟩ Upāsikāya budharakhitāya dānaṁ
Translation by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier
A. Left of the drainage hole
(1) Gift of […].
B. Above the drainage hole
(1) Gift of the lay woman Budharakhitā.
Bibliography
Previously unpublished. Edited here by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from photographs of the stone.
Secondary
Dasarathi, S. 1992. Handbook of District Archaeological Museum Pangal, Nalgonda. Reprint 2024. Hyderabad: Dept. of Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Part IV.
ARIE 2003–2004. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 2003–04. Edited by K. Munirathnam. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 2018. Appendix B, item 10.
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