EIAD 294. Railing pillar fragment 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).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ [sidhaṁ namo] bhagavato _ kavururavathaviyā pavajitikayā _ va(da)yā tha-

⟨2⟩ [*****]yā ⟦ha⟧⟨⟨a⟩⟩ṁgiyā bhāyitiyā bodhiyā Utayā Imaṁ paṁdaka patiṭha[p](i)⟨⟨ta⟩⟩

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kavurura- ⬦ B1882; kevurura- H L; kevurure B1887; kavurūre S • Cf. EIAD 271: kevururavathavasa — ⟨1⟩ -vathaviyā ⬦ B1887 S; vathaviya B1882 H. — ⟨1⟩ pavajitikayā ⬦ H B1887 L S; pavajato B1882. — ⟨1⟩ va(da)yā ⬦ H B1887; paya B1882; vabayā S. — ⟨1⟩ tha- ⬦ H B1887 S; omitted B1882.

⟨2⟩ yā ⟦ha⟧⟨⟨a⟩⟩ṁgiyā ⬦ yā haṁgiyā H B1887 L S; […] hagiya B1882 • H edits it as a single A in a third line, but this is clearly an insertion, like the ta inserted below the final word. Interestingly, the A is preceded by cross-like sign, which we interpret as a rare instance of a deletion mark. — ⟨2⟩ bhāyitiyā ⬦ S; bhoyitiya B1882; bhāy(aṁ)tiyā H B1887; bhāyaṁtīya L. — ⟨2⟩ bodhiyā ⬦ H B1887 S; bedhiya B1882. — ⟨2⟩ Utayā ⬦ H B1887 S; Utaya B1882. — ⟨2⟩ Imaṁ paṁdaka ⬦ mahadaka- B1882. — ⟨2⟩ paṁdaka ⬦ peṁḍak(o) H; peṁḍaka B1887 L; peṇḍaka S; B. — ⟨2⟩ padaka ⬦ ¡padaka!⟨pendaka⟩ B. — ⟨2⟩ patiṭha[p](i)⟨⟨ta⟩⟩ ⬦ H B1887 S; -patitha [1+] A B1882.

Translation

[Homage to] the Bhagavant! This ¿upright? is set up by the nun Vadā, a resident of Kavurura, ⟨as well as⟩ by Aṅgī, Bodhī, Bhāyitī and Utā.

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 18, item 54, plate III, item 7.

[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 78, item 19, plate XLI, item 6, page LVII.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1886. “Berichtigungen und Nachträge zu den Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 40, pp. 343–6. [URL]. Page 345, item 49.

[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 297, item 100, items IV A, 13, plate LXIII, item 1.

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 237, item Amar 42.

[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 146, item 1240.

[B] Barrett, Douglas. 1990. “Style and palaeography at Amarāvatī.” Oriental Art 36 (2), pp. 77–82. Page 79.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 152–153, item 231.

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