EIAD 286. Āyāka pillar fragment from the Amaravati stūpa

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Ingo Strauch, Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00286.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ vāniyasa kuṭasa sa-

⟨2⟩ bhariyasa saputakasa saduhu-

⟨3⟩ tukasa sanatukasa dakhināyā-

⟨4⟩ ke cetiyakhabho sadhāduko dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vāniyasa ⬦ H B1887 S; vaniyasa B1882.

⟨1-2⟩ sabhariyasa ⬦ F; sabheriyasa B1882 H B1887 S.

⟨3-4⟩ dakhināyāke ⬦ B1882 H F S; dakhināyāka B1887.

⟨4⟩ cetiyakhabho ⬦ H F S; cetiyagabho B1882.

Translation

Success! A caitya⟨-bearing⟩ pillar, containing relics, ⟨erected⟩ on the southern āyāka: the gift of the merchant Kuṭa, together with his wife, son⟨s⟩, daughter⟨s⟩, and grandchildren.

Bibliography

This edition by Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in June 2026.

Primary

[B1882] Burgess, James. 1882. Notes on the Amarāvatī Stūpa. Archæological survey of Southern India 3. Madras: E. Keys. Pages 5–6, item 3.

[B1887] Burgess, James. 1887. The Buddhist stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Madras Presidency, surveyed in 1882. With translations of the Aśoka inscriptions at Jaugadi and Dhauli by George Bühler. Reprint New Delhi 1996. Archaeological Survey of Southern India 6. London: Trübner & Co. [URL]. Page 86, item 47, plate XLV, items 1-4.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Page 550, item 4.

[S] Sivaramamurti, C. 1942. Amaravati sculptures in the Madras Government Museum. Reprints 1956, 1977, etc. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum New Series, General Section, 4. Madras: Government Museum. [URL]. Pages 172–173, items II E, 5, page 283, item 50.

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. Page 233, item Amar 34.

[F] Franke, R. Otto. 1896. “Epigraphische Notizen.” ZDMG 50, pp. 585–606. [URL]. Page 600.

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 144, item 1229.

Shimada, Akira. 2013. Early Buddhist architecture in context: The Great stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE). Brill’s Indological Library 43. Leiden: Brill. [URL]. Page 138.

Kannan, R. 2014. Compilation on Amaravati sculptures and conservation and reorganisation of the Amaravati gallery in the Government Museum, Chennai. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum New Series, General Section, 19. Chennai: The Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner of Museums; Department of Museums; Government of Tamil Nadu; Government Museum. [URL]. Page 187, item 177.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 107–108, item 145.

von Hinüber, Oskar. 2023. “The Adhālaka-Mahācetiya at Kanaganahalli as a political monument.” IIJ 66 (2), pp. 127–147. Page 132.

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