- Support
- Fragments of a pillar; remaining fragment h. 102 × w. 49 × d. 22.5 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 8 lines. Inscribed area of the remaining fragment: h. 31 × w. 21.5 cm.
- Date
- Unknown regnal year of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, i.e., approximately between 250 and 300 CE.
- Origin
- Presumably erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Discovered at Nagarjunakonda, site 17, during excavations in the 1954–55 season. So far, only the bottom part of the inscription has been identified at the Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 504). This identification was made in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s):
- AL 2017;
- JM 2017.
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- IAR 1954–55 (pl. XLVI B),
- Sircar 1955 (III); Sircar 1961–62b (III).
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First described and edited by Sircar 1955: 43–4 and then in Sircar 1961-62b: 210–1 (III) . Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone covering the lower part of the inscription.
(1)
+ + +
///
? ?
[ca]
tethika[na]
+ +
? ?
kā
+
?
+
(2)
+
///
lasa
ca
bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa
[°ā]gaṁtukavathave[h]i
(3)
+
///
bhuṁjitavasa
°akhayanivikā
datā
gāma[ṁ]
pa
(4)
+ +
///
?
haṁ
kakolūraṁ
nelācava[saṁ]
///
+ + + +
(5)
+ +
///
? ? ya
ca
°apara[ma]
///
+ + + + + + +
(6)
?
s[a]
ca
°a[khaya]n[i]v[i]
dīnārimāsak[ā]
divaḍhaṁ
sataṁ
?
(7)
supayuta[ṁ]
°esā
ca
°akhayanivī
ku(l)
[ī]
kapamukhāya[ṁ]
?
(8)
°anutheya
ci[t]i
?
yaṁ
.i
(1) + + + /// ? ? [ca] tethika[na] + + ? ? kā + ? +
(2) + /// lasa ca bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa [°ā]gaṁtukavathave[h]i
(3) + /// bhuṁjitavasa °akhayanivikā datā gāma[ṁ] pa -
(4) + + /// ? haṁ kakolūraṁ nelācava[saṁ] /// + + + +
(5) + + /// ? ? ya ca °apara[ma] /// + + + + + + +
(6) ? s[a] ca °a[khaya]n[i]v[i] dīnārimāsak[ā] divaḍhaṁ sataṁ ?
(7) supayuta[ṁ] °esā ca °akhayanivī ku(l) [ī] kapamukhāya[ṁ] ?
(8) °anutheya ci[t]i ? yaṁ .i
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<lb n="1"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok3402">
<unclear>ca</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3403">tethika<unclear>na</unclear>
</w>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok3405">kā</w>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="2"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<w xml:id="tok3406">lasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok3407">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok3408">bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok3409">
<unclear>°ā</unclear>gaṁtukavathave<unclear>h</unclear>i</w>
<lb n="3"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<w xml:id="tok3410">bhuṁjitavasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok3411">°akhayanivikā</w>
<w xml:id="tok3412">datā</w>
<w xml:id="tok3413">gāma<unclear>ṁ</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3414">pa</w>
<lb n="4" break="no"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok3415">haṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok3416">kakolūraṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok3417">nelācava<unclear>saṁ</unclear>
</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="4" unit="character"/>
<lb n="5"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<w xml:id="tok3418">
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>ya</w>
<w xml:id="tok3419">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok3420">°apara<unclear>ma</unclear>
</w>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="7" unit="character"/>
<lb n="6"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok3421">s<unclear>a</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3422">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok3423">°a<unclear>khaya</unclear>n<unclear>i</unclear>v<unclear>i</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3424">dīnārimāsak<unclear>ā</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3425">divaḍhaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok3426">sataṁ</w>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="7"/>
<w xml:id="tok3428">supayuta<unclear>ṁ</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok3428bis">°esā</w>
<w xml:id="tok3429">ca</w>
<w xml:id="tok3430">°akhayanivī</w>
<w xml:id="tok3431">ku<supplied reason="lost">l</supplied>
<unclear>ī</unclear>
kapamukhāya<unclear>ṁ</unclear>
</w>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<lb n="8"/>
<w xml:id="tok3432">°anutheya</w>
<w xml:id="tok34333">ci<unclear>t</unclear>i</w>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok3434">yaṁ</w>
<w xml:id="tok3435">
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="aksarapart"/>i</w>
</ab>- (1) [ca] tethika[na] + + ? ? kā + ? + [ca] tethika[na] ........... na kā DCS . The passage seems parallel to EIAD 56, l. 7 [te]thikanakhati[k]āpa[hā]raḍhikā and 139, l. 3-4 tethikanak[kh]attik[ā]pahārakādi. One could read ? tikā after the gap between two fragments, but supplying a single syllable kha in the gap does not seem sufficient to fill it.
- (2) bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa [°ā]gaṁtukavathave[h]i bhadaphula saṭhapa sa(ma)gandakavathavaki DCS . Cf. EIAD 105, l. 10: bhadaphulasaṁṭhapasa.
- (3) gāma[ṁ] pa gāmapa DCS .
- (6) dīnārimāsak[ā] dīnārimāsakā(naṁ) DCS . But cf. EIAD 10, l. 6.
- (6) sataṁ ? sataṁ [bha] DCS .
- (7) °akhayanivī °akhayanivi DCS .
- (7) ku(l) [ī]ka- ku[li]ka- DCS .
- (8) °anutheya ci[t]i ? yaṁ .i °atatheya ci … yaṁ [hi] DCS . The last akṣara is presumably <ti>.
... (for) the taithika, the nā(kṣatrika ?), and for the repair of what was damaged and dilapidated; it should be enjoyed by those who (will) arrive and who (presently) reside. As permanent endowment, the village(s) of ... Kakolūra (and) Nelācavasa ... and aparama... ... a permanent endowment, (consisting in) one and a half hundred of dīnārimāṣakas, is firmly
attributed to (...). And this permanent endowment is to be
executed by (...) headed by the kulikas ...
- bookmark IAR 1954–55: 23
- bookmark ARIE 1954–55: 13, no. B.7
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: 70
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Naga 51
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 158 (no. 42)
- bookmark Soundara Rajan 2006: 178
Commentary