- Support
- Āyaka pillar; h. 270 × w. 48 × d. 38 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. to be measured from Leiden est. × w. to be measured from Leiden est. cm
- Date
- Almost certainly the sixth regnal year of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, approximately between 225 and 275 CE, based on comparison with the parallel texts from the same site whose dating formula is preserved.
- Origin
- Erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Discovered between March 1926 and October 1927 at Nagarjunakonda, Site 1, on the North side of the Mahācaitya. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 787) in February 2016. The pillar is stored with the inscribed facets facing downward, making photography of the inscription and verification of its text directly from the stone impossible.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s):
- photos AL 2017
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- estampage Leiden N9
- Raghunath (different ones under 10B and 10D)
- Editors
- Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
- Publication history
- First described by Vogel 1929–30a: 14 (D2) , but without edition of the text. This was first integrally published by Raghunath 2001: 97-8 (no. 10B) = 101 (no. 10D) , with two entries for this single inscription, both marred by numerous involuntary errors. We re-edit the text here from the Leiden estampage.
(1)
sidhaṁ
namo
bhagavato
saṁmasaṁbudhasa
dhātuvaraparigahītasa
°imamhi
mahācetiye
(2)
mahārajasa
hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa
(3)
savathesu
°apatihatasaṁkapasa
vāsīṭhīputasa
°ikhākusa
siricāṁtamūlasa
(4)
sodarā
bhagini
raṁñoṁ
māḍharīputasirivirapurisadatasa
pituṁcha
mahasenāpatisa
(5)
mahātalavarasa
vāseṭhīputasa
pūkīyanaṁ
kaṁdasirisa
bhariya
samaṇabamhaṇakavaṇavaṇijaka(6)dīnānugahavelāmi⟨ka⟩dānapaṭibhāga(voch)i(nadhārapadāyini)
(savasā)dhuvachalā
mahātalavari
(7) khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā
[c]ā(t)i(s)i(ri)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
?
parināmetunaṁ
(8)
°ata[no]
ca
nivā
…
(9)
ta
…
(1) sidhaṁ namo bhagavato saṁmasaṁbudhasa dhātuvaraparigahītasa °imamhi mahācetiye
(2) mahārajasa hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa
(3) savathesu °apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsīṭhīputasa °ikhākusa siricāṁtamūlasa
(4) sodarā bhagini raṁñoṁ māḍharīputasirivirapurisadatasa pituṁcha mahasenāpatisa
(5) mahātalavarasa vāseṭhīputasa pūkīyanaṁ kaṁdasirisa bhariya samaṇabamhaṇakavaṇavaṇijaka-
(6)dīnānugahavelāmi⟨ka⟩dānapaṭibhāga(voch)i(nadhārapadāyini) (savasā)dhuvachalā mahātalavari
(7) khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā [c]ā(t)i(s)i(ri) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ? parināmetunaṁ
(8) °ata[no] ca nivā …
(9) ta …
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</ab>- (2) mahārajasa Emend mahārājasa.
- (4) mahasenā- Emend mahāsenā-.
(1) Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the Perfect Buddha who is
ensconced in the excellent relic [or: element (i.e.,
nirvāṇadhātu)]!
(1-9)
At this Great Shrine, Cāntisirī — uterine sister of Great
King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku, giver of tens
of millions of (pieces of) gold, hundreds of thousands of
cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), 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 of velāmika gifts as a favor
to ascetics, brahmans, beggars, mendicants and the wretched;
affectionate to (all) good people; Great-Talavara-wife,
mother of Khandasāgaraṇṇaka — having dedicated ... of
nirvāṇa for
herself ...
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 34