Metadata

Support
Pillar fragment; h. unavailable ×  w. unavailable ×  d. unavailable cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable ×  w. unavailable cm .
Date
Date lost. But comparison with the other inscriptions found at the same site (EIAD 21, 24, 25 and 26) allows us to propose that this one too was engraved during Siri-Vīrapurisadatta’s reign, i.e., approximately between 225 and 275 CE.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Findspot is not recorded in the archaeological reports. First noticed at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 2937) no later than 1969. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 2937) in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photo on Dropbox
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First edited by Sarkar 1969: 177 (M21) . Re-edited here after autopsy of the fragment.

    Edition

    (1) ? ? (2) °anekahi/// (raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa) (3) (pa) /// [d]āyi[sa] …

    (1) ? ?
    (2) °anekahi/// (raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa)
    (3) (pa) /// [d]āyi[sa] … 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok1597">°anekahi<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
                  <supplied reason="lost">raṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasa</supplied>
               </w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok1598">
                  <supplied reason="lost">pa</supplied>
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
                  <unclear>d</unclear>āyi<unclear>sa</unclear>
               </w>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (3) (pa) /// [d]āyi[sa] … yi … HS .

    Translation

    ... giver of many times tens of millions of (pieces of) gold(, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows of land) ...

    Secondary bibliography