EIAD 273. Dome slab fragment from the Amaravati stūpa

Authors of digital edition: Fu Fan (fufa), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified) (brāhmī_southern_unspecified)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00273.

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Version: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 15:27 (601872f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […](sa)duhutakasa saputakasa sanatukasa paṭo dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (sa)duhutakasa saputakasa sanatukasa paṭo dānaṁ ⬦ radahapacepaya […] kasayanadha […] kasapanoraya F.

Translation

A slab: the gift of […] together with ⟨his/her⟩ daughter⟨s⟩, son⟨s⟩ and grandson⟨s⟩.

Bibliography

This edition by Fu Fan and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in September 2026.

Primary

[F] Fergusson, James. 1873. Tree and serpent worship: or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ, from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amaravati. 2nd. London: India museum, W.H. Allen and co., publishers to the India office. [URL]. Pages 235–236, page 262, item 10, plate XCV, item 3, plate XCIX.

Secondary

Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996. インド仏教碑銘の研究 I, Text, Note, 和訳 Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū I: Text, Note, Wayaku [A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions, Part I: Text, Notes and Japanese Translation]. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店. Item Amar 21.

Lüders, Heinrich. 1912. A list of Brahmi inscriptions from the earliest times to about A.D. 400 with the exception of those of Asoka. Appendix to Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archæological Survey of India 10. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. [URL]. Page 142, item 1215.

Knox, Robert. 1992. Amaravati: Buddhist sculpture from the Great Stūpa. London: British Museum Press. Pages 182–183, item 101.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 164–165, item 255.

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