EIAD 460. Pillar fragment from the Amaravati stūpa

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

Palaeographic description: Lettering compatible with a dating to the 1st–2nd centuries BCE.

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00460.

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Version: 2026-07-17 15:34 (ce35bbc), last modified 2026-07-17 15:34 (ce35bbc).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)[ā]lavane (bha)gav(ā)

⟨2⟩ parinivuto

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (s)[ā]lavane ⬦ [sā]lavane G&S; [sa]lavane S. — ⟨1⟩ (bha)gav(ā) ⬦ bhagavato G&S.

⟨2⟩ parinivuto ⬦ parinivute G&S.

Translation

In the Sal-tree forest, the Bhagavant entered parinirvāṇa.

Bibliography

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

Primary

[G&S] Ghosh, A. & H. Sarkar. 1964–1965. “Beginnings of sculptural art in south-east India: A stele from Amaravati.” AI 20 & 21, pp. 168–177. Page 173, item E, plate XLIII.

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 209.

Ghosh, A. 1979. “The early phase of the Stupa at Amaravati, South-East India.” Ancient Ceylon — Journal of the Archaeological Survey Department of Sri Lanka 3, pp. 97–103. Page 103, item 41.

[S] Sarma, I. Karthikeya. 1985. “Early sculptures and epigraphs from South-East India: New evidence from Amarāvatī.” In: Indian epigraphy: Its bearing on the history of art. Edited by Frederick M. Asher & Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH; American Institute of Indian Studies, pp. 15–24. Pages 19–20, plate 26.

Gupta, S. S. 2008. Sculptures and antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, Amarāvatī. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. Pages 47–48, item 273, figure XV(c).

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