EIAD 479. Railing pillar from the Amaravati stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

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

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

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00479.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ [*] [.]āna samaŪkasa seṭhino thabho

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [1+] [.]āna samaŪkasa ⬦ [.]i[.]ānasa maŪkasa G • The word division proposed here, with a gen. pl. followed by a gen. sg. is not certain, and it is equally possible that the name of the individual was, in fact, Ma°uka.

Translation

“Pillar of guild’s chief ¿Samaºuka? of the … [family?]”

Bibliography

This edition by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in November 2025.

Primary

[S] Sarma, I. Karthikeya. 1974. “Some more inscriptions from Amarāvati excavations and the chronology of the Mahāstūpa.” JESI 1, pp. 60–74. [URL]. Page 70, item 556.

[G] 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 3, plate I.

Secondary

ARIE 1977–78. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1977-78. Edited by K. G. Krishnan. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1986. Item B.23.

Francis, N. J. 2016. A source book of the early Buddhist inscriptions of Amarāvatī. Golden jubilee series. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Page 63, item 12.

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