EIAD 477. Railing pillar from the Amaravati stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00477.

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Version: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 16:22 (7c01153).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kala(ḷ)airagāmasa thabo

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kala(ḷ)airagāmasa ⬦ kalavairagāmasa Gh • The reading ḷai is especially unclear.

Translation

“Pillar by the village of Kalaḷaira.”

Bibliography

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

Primary

[S1974] Sarma, I. Karthikeya. 1974. “Some more inscriptions from Amarāvati excavations and the chronology of the Mahāstūpa.” JESI 1, pp. 60–74. [URL]. Page 70.

[Gh] 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 101, item 1, plate I.

[S1985] 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. Page 17.

Secondary

ARIE 1959–60. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1959-60. Edited by Dines Chandra Sircar. Delhi: Manager of Publications (Department of Archaeology), 1963. Item B.25.

Gupta, S. S. 2008. Sculptures and antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, Amarāvatī. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld. Page 15, item 3.

Shimada, Akira. 2013. Early Buddhist architecture in context: The Great stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE). Brill’s Indological Library 43. Leiden: Brill. [URL]. Page 136.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 61, item 5.

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