Fragment of a railing pillar from Amaravati

Editors: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00334.

Hand description:

Lettering typical of the 1st century CE.

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

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

Version: 2025-05-06 06:25 (a154659), last modified 2025-04-17 07:44 (77e39b7).

⟨1⟩ vinaya-dharasa Aya-punavasusa Atevāsiniya Uvajhāyiniya samudiyaya Atevāsiniya malayā pādaka ⟨2⟩ (dā)na

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vinaya-dharasa H S • Bühler’s reading published in Burgess 1887 was vinayadhirasa. The estampage published in Burgess 1887 suggests that one must read vinayaṁdharasa, and this idea was defended by Franke 1896. But our photos of the stone do not confirm this incongruous reading. — ⟨1⟩ Uvajhāyiniya S ⬦ Uvara(ḷa)yiniya H • Bühler’s reading published in Burgess 1887 was Uvarayiniya. Lüders 1912 first proposed the reading adopted by Sivaramamurti 1942 that we also adopt here. — ⟨1⟩ pādaka ⬦ pādukā H; peṇḍaka S • Bühler’s reading published in Burgess 1887 was pāḍakā. Franke 1896 wrote “statt pāḍakā lese ich deutlich pādu[kā]”, but the meaning of his brackets defies us. This reading was accepted by Lüders 1912. We adopt here the reading proposed by Barrett 1990.

⟨2⟩ (dā)na S ⬦ dāna H • Bühler’s reading published in Burgess 1887 was dāna[ṁ].

Translation by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

The upright is a gift of Mallā, pupil of the preceptor Samuddiyā, (herself) pupil of the noble Punavvasu, a vinaya scholar.

Commentary

For the contents, compare EIAD 131 and EIAD 255.

Bibliography

First edited and translated by Eugen Hultzsch (1883). Burgess 1887 cites a reading communicated to him by Georg Bühler. This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from a published estampage, from photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

Primary

[H] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1883. “Amarâvatî-Inschriften.” ZDMG 37, pp. 548–561. [URL]. Plates 560-561, item 45.

[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 291, item 70, plate XXXV (2).

Secondary

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 37, plate XII (3), plate LVI (8).

Franke, R. Otto. 1896. “Epigraphische Notizen.” ZDMG 50, pp. 585–606. [URL]. Page 599.

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 153, item 1286.

Barrett, Douglas. 1990. “Style and palaeography at Amarāvatī.” Oriental Art 36 (2), pp. 77–82. Page 78.

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. Volume I, item Amar 82.

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]. Pages 176–177, item *147.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages 133–134, item 194.

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Franke 1896: 599. — Lüders 1912a: 153 (1286). — Barrett 1990: 78. — Kannan 2014: 176–7 (*147). — Francis 2016: 133–4 (194).

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