- Support
- Fragment of an Āyaka pillar; h. 200 × w. 50 × d. 36 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 73 × w. 59 cm.
- Date
- Sixth regnal year of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, approximately between 225 and 275 CE.
- Origin
- Erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Certainly discovered at Nagarjunakonda, Site 1, and possibly at the same time as the other pillar inscriptions from this site, but not mentioned in Vogel 1929–30a . No information is available concerning its original position in relation to the Mahācaitya. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 784) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- photos VT 2016
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- Raghunath
- Editors
- Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
- Publication history
- First edited by Raghunath 2001: 85-6, 197 (no. 8A) ; wrongly identified by the same author with Vogel 1929–30a ’s C2 (our EIAD 5). We re-edit the text here from our own photos, and after autopsy of the stone.
(1)
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[naka]
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(2)
+ + + + + + + + + +
(°apa)
///t[i]hatasaṁkapasa
vāsiṭhiputasa
°ikhā[ku]
(sa)
(3)
(siricātam)ū(la)sa
sodarā
bhagini
raño
māḍharīputasa
sirivirapurisadatasa
(4)
pituchā
mahāsenapatisa
mahātalavarasa
vāsiṭhīputasa
pūkīyānaṁ
kaṁdasirisa
(5)
bhariyā
samaṇabamaṇakavaṇavaṇijakadīnānugahavelāmikadānapaṭibhāgavo(6)chinadhārapadāyini
savasādhuvachalā
mahādānapatini
mahātalavari
khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā
(7)
cātisiri
°apano
°ubhayakulasa
°atichita
-m-
anāgatavaṭamānakānaṁ
parināmetunaṁ
(8)
°ubhayalokahitasukhāvahathanāya
°atano
ca
nivāṇasaṁpatisaṁpādake
(9)
savalokahitasukhāvahathanāya
ca
°imaṁ
khaṁbhaṁ
patithapitaṁ
ti
–
(10)
raṁño
sirivīrapurisadatasa
sava
6
⟪
vāpa
6
⟫
diva
10
(1) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + [naka] + + + + + + + + +
(2) + + + + + + + + + + (°apa) ///t[i]hatasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhiputasa °ikhā[ku] (sa)
(3) (siricātam)ū(la)sa sodarā bhagini raño māḍharīputasa sirivirapurisadatasa
(4) pituchā mahāsenapatisa mahātalavarasa vāsiṭhīputasa pūkīyānaṁ kaṁdasirisa
(5) bhariyā samaṇabamaṇakavaṇavaṇijakadīnānugahavelāmikadānapaṭibhāgavo-
(6)chinadhārapadāyini savasādhuvachalā mahādānapatini mahātalavari khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā
(7) cātisiri °apano °ubhayakulasa °atichita -m- anāgatavaṭamānakānaṁ parināmetunaṁ
(8) °ubhayalokahitasukhāvahathanāya °atano ca nivāṇasaṁpatisaṁpādake
(9) savalokahitasukhāvahathanāya ca °imaṁ khaṁbhaṁ patithapitaṁ ti –
(10) raṁño sirivīrapurisadatasa sava 6 ⟪ vāpa 6 ⟫ diva 10
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<w xml:id="tok489">
<unclear>naka</unclear>
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<gap reason="lost" quantity="9" unit="character"/>
<lb n="2"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="10" unit="character"/>
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<supplied reason="lost">°apa</supplied>
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<w xml:id="tok495">vāsiṭhiputasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok496">°ikhā<unclear>ku</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied>
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<lb n="3"/>
<w xml:id="tok497">
<supplied reason="lost">siricātam</supplied>ū<supplied reason="lost">la</supplied>sa</w>
<w xml:id="tok498">sodarā</w>
<w xml:id="tok498bis">bhagini</w>
<w xml:id="tok499">raño</w>
<w xml:id="tok500">māḍharīputasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok501">sirivirapurisadatasa</w>
<lb n="4"/>
<w xml:id="tok502">pituchā</w>
<w xml:id="tok503">mahāsenapatisa</w>
<w xml:id="tok504">mahātalavarasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok505">vāsiṭhīputasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok506">pūkīyānaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok507">kaṁdasirisa</w>
<lb n="5"/>
<w xml:id="tok507bis">bhariyā</w>
<w xml:id="tok508">samaṇabamaṇakavaṇavaṇijakadīnānugahavelāmikadānapaṭibhāgavo<lb n="6" break="no"/>chinadhārapadāyini</w>
<w xml:id="tok509">savasādhuvachalā</w>
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<w xml:id="tok511">mahātalavari</w>
<w xml:id="tok512">khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā</w>
<lb n="7"/>
<w xml:id="tok513">cātisiri</w>
<w xml:id="tok514">°apano</w>
<w xml:id="tok515">°ubhayakulasa</w>
<w xml:id="cmp1">
<w xml:id="tok516">°atichita</w>
<w xml:id="tok517" type="hiatus-breaker">m</w>
<w xml:id="tok518">anāgatavaṭamānakānaṁ</w>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok519">parināmetunaṁ</w>
<lb n="8"/>
<w xml:id="tok520">°ubhayalokahitasukhāvahathanāya</w>
<w xml:id="tok521">°atano</w>
<w xml:id="tok522">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok523">nivāṇasaṁpatisaṁpādake</w>
<lb n="9"/>
<w xml:id="tok524">savalokahitasukhāvahathanāya</w>
<w xml:id="tok525">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok526">°imaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok527">khaṁbhaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok528">patithapitaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok529">ti</w>
<pc>–</pc>
<lb n="10"/>
<w xml:id="tok529bis">raṁño</w>
<w xml:id="tok530">sirivīrapurisadatasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok531">sava</w>
<num xml:id="tok532" value="6">6</num>
<add place="below">
<w xml:id="tok533">vāpa</w>
<num xml:id="tok533bis" value="6">6</num>
</add>
<w xml:id="tok535">diva</w>
<num xml:id="tok536" value="10">10</num>
</ab>... Cāntisirī — uterine sister of ... Vāsiṭṭhīputta
Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku ... whose will is unimpeded (in
all matters); paternal aunt of King Māṭharīputta
Siri-Vīrapurisadatta; wife of Great General, Great Talavara
Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kandasiri of the Pūkīyas; giver of an unequalled
and uninterrupted stream as a favor to ascetics, brahmans,
beggars, mendicants and the wretched; affectionate to all
good people; great donor; Great-Talavara-wife, mother of
Khandasāgaraṇṇaka — having dedicated (the merit) to the
past, future and present members of her family on both
sides, established this pillar for the sake of well‐being
and happiness in both worlds, for achieving the fortune
of nirvāṇa for
herself and for the sake of bringing about well-being and
happiness of all people. In the 6th year of King
Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 6th fortnight of the rainy
season, on the 10th day.