- Support
- Recomposed fragments of a pillar; h. 38 × w. 18 × d. 10 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 25 × w. 17 cm .
- Date
- The dating formula of this inscription is only very partially preserved, bearing neither regnal year nor name of a king. But comparison with the other inscriptions found at the same site (EIAD 21, 24, 25 and 27) allows us to propose that this one too was engraved during Siri-Vīrapurisadatta's reign, i.e., approximately between 225 and 275 CE.
- Origin
- Presumably erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Discovered in the cold season of 1927-1928 by A.H. Longhurst at Nagarjunakonda Site 1, in the monastic hall of Cāntisirī, close to the eastern side of the apsidal temple. Identified during fieldwork in February 2016, at Nagarjunakonda Museum (w/out acc. no.).
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- Sarkar 1969, pl. II
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- Vogel
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- Fragments first described and edited by Vogel 1931-32: 67 (M12, M15) , then pieced together by Sarkar 1969: 177 (vii) . Re-edited here from Sarkar's plate II (vii) and after autopsy of the original.
(1)
+ + + + + + +
///
? ? ?
///
…
(2)
(mahāce)
///
[ti]yapāda[mūle]
pa[va]ji///
(tānaṁ)
…
(3)
///
savasā(dhū)
[naṁ]
mahā(bhi)khusaṁ[gha]
///
(sa)
…
(4)
///
nikapa[ni]
(ke)
///
ca
pari[nā]metuna
///
…
(5)
pariga[he]
///
…
(6)
patiṭha[pi]
///
(taṁ)
…
(7)
vāpa
8
…
(1) + + + + + + + /// ? ? ? /// …
(2) (mahāce) /// [ti]yapāda[mūle] pa[va]ji/// (tānaṁ) …
(3) /// savasā(dhū) [naṁ] mahā(bhi)khusaṁ[gha] /// (sa) …
(4) /// nikapa[ni] (ke) /// ca pari[nā]metuna /// …
(5) pariga[he] /// …
(6) patiṭha[pi] /// (taṁ) …
(7) vāpa 8 …
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<gap reason="illegible" quantity="3" unit="character"/>
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<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="2"/>
<w xml:id="tok1581">
<supplied reason="lost">mahāce</supplied>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<unclear>ti</unclear>yapāda<unclear>mūle</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok1582">pa<unclear>va</unclear>ji<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<supplied reason="lost">tānaṁ</supplied>
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<milestone unit="fragment" n="A"/>
<w xml:id="tok1583">savasā<supplied reason="lost">dhū</supplied>
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<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied>
</w>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="4"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="A"/>
<w xml:id="tok1585">nikapa<unclear>ni</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost">ke</supplied>
</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="B"/>
<w xml:id="tok1586">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok1587">pari<unclear>nā</unclear>metuna</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="5"/>
<w xml:id="tok1589">pariga<unclear>he</unclear>
</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="6"/>
<w xml:id="tok1591">patiṭha<unclear>pi</unclear>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<supplied reason="lost">taṁ</supplied>
</w>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="7"/>
<w xml:id="tok1592">vāpa</w>
<num xml:id="tok1593" value="8">8</num>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
</ab>... at the base of Great Shrine ... having dedicated ... of
the great community of monks (consisting) of all good
renunciants ... and to nikapanīka ... in the possession ...
established ... in the 8th fortnight of the rainy season
...
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 26
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Naga 40.3 (30, 33)
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 110 (no. 13C)
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