EIAD 306. Undetermined object from the Amaravati stūpa

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

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00306.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ (si)dhaṁ ⁓ sulasagahapatiputena gaha(pa)[tinā]

⟨2⟩ nāgatāya bālakena ya sulasena sadhutu[kena]

⟨3⟩ [da]khinapase dāra kārita deyadhama

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ gaha(pa)[tinā] ⬦ gahapa[ti] B1882; gaha(pa) H B1887; (ga) S.

⟨2⟩ bālakena ⬦ S; bālikena B1882 H B1887. — ⟨2⟩ sadhutu[kena] ⬦ sadhūtu[…] B1882; sadhutu[…] H B1887 S.

⟨3⟩ [da]khinapase ⬦ B1882 H B1887; khinapase S.

Translation

A gate on the southern side is made as the pious gift by the notable […] son of the notable Sulasa, […] and by [his wife?] Nāgatā, ⟨their⟩ son Sulasa, together with his daughter⟨s⟩ […]

Bibliography

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

Primary

[B1882] Burgess, James. 1882. Notes on the Amarāvatī Stūpa. Archæological survey of Southern India 3. Madras: E. Keys. Pages 35–36, item 175, plate IV, item 16.

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Page 556, item 26.

[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]. Pages 104–105, item 44, plate LX.

[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 284–285, item 55, items II E, 25.

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 54.

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 149, item 1255.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 131, item 189.

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