- Support
- Fragment of a pillar; h. unavailable × w. unavailable × d. unavailable cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable × w. unavailable cm .
- Date
- Date unavailable.
- Origin
- Nagarjunakonda.
- 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. Not identified during fieldwork from February 2016 onward. Present whereabouts unknown.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s) of estampage(s):
- Vogel M14
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First edited by Vogel 1931-32: 67 (M14) . Re-edited here from Vogel's estampage.
(1)
…
(pava)
///jitā[naṁ]
[nānāde]s[asama]
///
(nāgatānaṁ)
…
(2)
…
///
°atano
°ubhayakulasa
///
…
(3)
…
///
?
parināmetūnaṁ
[°a]
///
(tano)
…
(4)
…
///
pu[ta]
///
…
(1) … (pava) ///jitā[naṁ] [nānāde]s[asama] /// (nāgatānaṁ) …
(2) … /// °atano °ubhayakulasa /// …
(3) … /// ? parināmetūnaṁ [°a] /// (tano) …
(4) … /// pu[ta] /// …
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<w xml:id="tok2159">
<supplied reason="lost">pava</supplied>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>jitā<unclear>naṁ</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok2160">
<unclear>nānāde</unclear>s<unclear>asama</unclear>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<supplied reason="lost">nāgatānaṁ</supplied>
</w>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="2"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<w xml:id="tok2162">°atano</w>
<w xml:id="tok2163">°ubhayakulasa</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="3"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok2167">parināmetūnaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok2168">
<unclear>°a</unclear>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<supplied reason="lost">tano</supplied>
</w>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<lb n="4"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<w xml:id="tok2170">pu<unclear>ta</unclear>
</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
</ab>
- (1) (pava)jitā[naṁ] [nānāde]s[asama] (nāgatānaṁ) ...[sa]vajātan[iyutaṁ] [catusāla] JPhV . See EIAD 28, l. 2.
- (3) ? parināmetūnaṁ [ °a] (tano) [ke] parināmetuna JPhV .
- (3) pu[ta] We tentatively follow here Vogel’s reading. This however does not seem to fit with any formula in other inscriptions in the corpus, and is hence suspect. One is tempted to read instead data[sa] , but the <da> would be rather squeezed then and the <ta> asymmetrical.
... (consisting) of ... renunciants who (come) from various
countries ..., having dedicated (the merit) ... of
her family on both sides ..., her ... son
...
- bookmark Sarkar 1969: 175
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 72
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Naga 32
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