- Support
- Pillar; h. 177 × w. 34 × d. 19 cm. Vogel 1929–30b: 61 suggests that the group of pillars bearing EIAD 44, 45 and 46, or at least the present inscription and 46, were Āyaka-pillars. We disagree with this determination of the object type, but are unable to propose a specific alternative type of pillar.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 83 × w. 28 cm .
- Date
- Second regnal year of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, approximately between 250 and 300 CE.
- Origin
- Erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Found at Nagarjunakonda, Site 5 in the course of A.H. Longhurst’s excavations between 1927 and 1931. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 558) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- photos AL 2017
- photos JM 2017
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- Est. ASI: Vogel
- Raghunath
RTI: RTI 2017 - Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First described by Vogel 1931-32: 62-3 (G3) . Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.
(1)
sidhaṁ
namo
bhagavato
(2)
budhasa
◊
mahārajasa
◊
virupakhapatimahāsena(3)parigahitasa
◊
°agihotagiṭhomavājapeyasamedha(4)yājisa
◊
hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasaha(5)la[sa]tasahasapadāyisa
◊
savathesu
°apa(6)tihatasaṁkapasa
◊
vāseṭhiputasa
°ikhākuna[ṁ]
si(7)rica[ṁ]tamulasa
◊
suṇh[ā]ya
◊
mahārājasa
(8)
māḍhariputasa
◊
°ikhākunaṁ
◊
sirivirapu(9)risadatāsa
◊
bhayāya
mahādeviya
◊
bha(10)ṭidevāya
◊
deyadhamo
◊
°ayaṁ
devīvi(11)hāro
◊
savajātāniyuto
◊
°ajariyānāṁ
ba(12)husutiyana[ṁ]
◊
patiṭhapito
◊
raño
siri°ehu(13)vuḷacatamulasa
◊
savacharaṁ
bitiya
◊
gimhapakha
(14)
chaṭha[ṁ]
◊
divasaṁ
dasamaṁ
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(1) sidhaṁ namo bhagavato
(2) budhasa ◊ mahārajasa ◊ virupakhapatimahāsena-
(3)parigahitasa ◊ °agihotagiṭhomavājapeyasamedha-
(4)yājisa ◊ hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasaha-
(5)la[sa]tasahasapadāyisa ◊ savathesu °apa-
(6)tihatasaṁkapasa ◊ vāseṭhiputasa °ikhākuna[ṁ] si-
(7)rica[ṁ]tamulasa ◊ suṇh[ā]ya ◊ mahārājasa
(8) māḍhariputasa ◊ °ikhākunaṁ ◊ sirivirapu-
(9)risadatāsa ◊ bhayāya mahādeviya ◊ bha-
(10)ṭidevāya ◊ deyadhamo ◊ °ayaṁ devīvi-
(11)hāro ◊ savajātāniyuto ◊ °ajariyānāṁ ba-
(12)husutiyana[ṁ] ◊ patiṭhapito ◊ raño siri°ehu-
(13)vuḷacatamulasa ◊ savacharaṁ bitiya ◊ gimhapakha
(14) chaṭha[ṁ] ◊ divasaṁ dasamaṁ ||||| (scroll)
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- (2) virupakha- vir(ū)pakha- JPhV .
- (3) °agihotagiṭhomavājapeyasamedha- °agihot⟨ā⟩giṭhomavājapey⟨ā⟩samedha- JPhV .
- (4) hiraṁṇa- hiraṇa- JPhV .
- (9) -datāsa -datasa JPhV . In light of the fact that all other gen. sg. forms of <-a> stems in this inscription have endings in <-asa>, one should probably follow Vogel’s silent emendation here. Gen. sg. forms in <-āsa> are, nevertheless, attested in Mathurā inscriptions (see Damsteegt 1978: 97-99 ; von Hinüber 2001: § 305 ), so one could see in this text and in EIAD 82, l. 3 and 320, l. 1 attestations of a residual presence of this ending in the corpus.
- (11) savajātāniyuto savajātaniyuto JPhV . One should probably follow this silent emendation by Vogel, in light of the fact that the two other instances of the compound in donations to the same nikāya read savajātaniyuto (EIAD 44, l. 8; 46, l. 6).
- (11-12) bahusutiyana[ṁ] bahusutiy⟨ā⟩na[ṁ] JPhV .
- (11) °ajariyānāṁ ajariyānaṁ JPhV . Note the unusual spelling with <j>.
- (13) savacharaṁ sa(ṁ)vachara JPhV .
(1) Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha.
(1-12) The Great
Queen Bhaṭidevā — daughter-in-law of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta
Siri-Cāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, favored by Mahāsena who has
Virūpākṣa as his lord, sacrificer of the Agnihotra, the
Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya and the Aśvamedha, 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, wife of Great King Māṭharīputta
Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus — established as pious
gift this Queen’s monastery, equipped with everything, for
the Bahuśrutīya masters.
(12-14)In the second year of king
Siri-Ehuvuḷacāntamūla, in the sixth fortnight of the hot
season, on the tenth day.
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 37
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Naga 43
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 131-2 (no. 28)
- bookmark Soundara Rajan 2006: 163, 166