Metadata

Support
Base of Lajjāgaurī relief in white marble stone; h. 78 ×  w. 132 ×  d. 18 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script.
Engraved on the pedestal of sculpture representing a sitting under female figure (now broken).
h. unavailable ×  w. 96 cm .
Date
Unknown regnal year of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūlavamma, between 250 and 300 CE.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Discovered in 1940 at Site-127, on the northern slope of the Nagarjuna hill. Wrongly attributed to Site-39 by Raghunath. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 7) in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos AL 2017
  • photos JM 2017
  • Narasimhaswami
    • Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • Est. ASI: Narasimhaswami.
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First described and edited by Narasimhaswami 1951-52 . Part of the text is currently partly covered by the board of the display, so besides autopsy and our own photos of the stone, we rely for this re-edition on published photographs.

    Edition

    (1) sidha – mahādеviya °avidhavāya j[ī]vaputāya mahārajasi[r]i[°e]hava[laca]tamulapati[ya] khaṁḍuvulāya kāritā ti –

    (1) sidha – mahādеviya °avidhavāya j[ī]vaputāya mahārajasi[r]i[°e]hava[laca]tamulapati[ya] khaṁḍuvulāya kāritā ti – 
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					          <w xml:id="tok3397">°avidhavāya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok3398">j<unclear>ī</unclear>vaputāya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok3399">mahārajasi<unclear>r</unclear>i<unclear>°e</unclear>hava<unclear>laca</unclear>tamulapati<unclear>ya</unclear>
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					          <w xml:id="tok3400">khaṁḍuvulāya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok3401">kāritā</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok3402">ti</w>
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    Apparatus

    • (1) mahādеviya mahādеvīya HKN .
    • (1) mahāraja mahārāja HKN .
    • (1) [°e]hava[laca]tamula [°ehavalacaṁtamu]la HKN .

    Translation

    Success! The Queen Khaṇḍuvulā, whose husband is alive, whose sons are alive, wife of Great King Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, caused (this image) to be made.

    Secondary bibliography