EIAD 290. Frieze from the Amaravati stūpa

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

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00290.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ [Aṁte]vasikāsa mahekhānājakāsa bhāyaṁtānādhasirisa si(s)[a] bhayaṁtābu[dha] […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [Aṁte]vasikāsa ⬦ […]vasikāsa B1882 H; (ante)vasikāsa B1887; (ante)vasikasa S. — ⟨1⟩ mahekhānājakāsa ⬦ mahākhā(?) najakāsa B1882; maheṁkhānājakāsa H B1887; mahegānājakāsa S. — ⟨1⟩ bhāyaṁtānādhasirisa ⬦ H B1887; bhāyatā(?) nādhasirisa B1882; bhayaṁta nādhasiris(i)sa(sa) S. — ⟨1⟩ si(s)[a] ⬦ si(so) H B1887; si(se) B1882; si(sa) S. — ⟨1⟩ bhayaṁtābu[dha] ⬦ H S; [1+] yachā(?) bu […] B1882; bhāyaṁtā bu […] B1887.

Translation

... of the reverend Buddha-, disciple of the reverend Nādhasiri from Mahekhānāja, the pupil of ...

Commentary

⟨1⟩ [Aṁte]vasikāsa: Here and in the following word, the length of the -ā in the genitive ending is unexpected. The scribe/engraver seems also to have written twice bhayaṁtā instead of bhayaṁta.

⟨1⟩ si(s)[a]: We don’t expect here the nominative form siso, so perhaps is it better to understand sisa as either an uninflected gen. sg., or perhaps rather as the product of an haplography, for sisasa.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier and Fu Fan. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in April 2025.

Primary

[B1882] Burgess, James. 1882. Notes on the Amarāvatī Stūpa. Archæological survey of Southern India 3. Madras: E. Keys. Page 12, item 11B.

[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 85, item 23, plate XLIII, item 4.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Page 551, item 6.

[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]. Page 268, items IV E, 14, pages 300–301, item 113.

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 235, item Amar 38.

[L] 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 145, item 1233.

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 202, item 226.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 155–156, item 236.

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