- Support
- Conch-shell; h. 17 × w. 9 × d. 10 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 5 × w. 2 cm .
- Origin
- Nagarjunakonda Site-29.
- Provenance
- Reported to have been found in a temple complex with three shrine chambers, in the northeastern corner of the valley (i.e., Site-29) in IAR 1958-59: 8 . Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (arts & crafts reg. 194) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- photos EIAD 2016
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- IAR 1958-59, pl. V (B), Sarma, fig. 3, Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan Raghunath, Soundara RajanAll publications reproduce the same plate.
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- The first serious reading to be published was that of Sarma 1970: 2, caption of fig. 3 . Re-edited here after autopsy of the object.
(1)
°ucc[i]takaṇasa[kha]
(1) °ucc[i]takaṇasa[kha]
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<w xml:id="tok1313">°ucc<unclear>i</unclear>takaṇasa<unclear>kha</unclear>
</w>
</ab>
- (1) °ucc[i]ta- °uccita- IKS . Sarma 1970 alternatively proposes to read raccita-.
- (1) -sa[kha] -saro IKS .
Uccitakaṇa’s conch.
- bookmark IAR 1958-59: 8
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. Ābhīras 4
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 165 (no. 48.2)
- bookmark Soundara Rajan 2006: 225