Metadata

Support
Four fragments, which cannot be connected with one another, of an unidentied object type in stone. Dimensions unknown.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. .
Date
Some regnal year of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, i.e., approximately between 225 and 275 CE.
Origin
Unclear.
Provenance
Discovered before 1959 at Nagarjunakonda, Site 34. This site is wrongly identified in ARIE (and following it by Raghunath) as “the Kārttikēya Temple Site”, but is actually the Puṣpabhadrasvāmin site (where EIAD 53 was dscovered). Present whereabouts unknown.
Visual Documentation

No photos of the ASI estampages were ever published. Our attempt to consult them in Mysore revealed that ARIE 1959-60: B.96-98 are missing while ARIE 1959-60: B.99 actually shows EIAD 70.

Editors
Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
Publication history
First published by Sircar 1963-64a: 20 (7.B.IV) , whose readings are adopted here.

Edition

A
… [virap]urusadatasa sa/// (vachara) …
B
… bhaga[va] …
C
… samuda …
D
… makuda[sa] …
A
… [virap]urusadatasa sa/// (vachara) …
B
… bhaga[va] …
C
… samuda …
D
… makuda[sa] …
A
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
						            <w xml:id="tok3855">
                     <unclear>virap</unclear>urusadatasa</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok3857">sa<milestone unit="fragment" n="lost"/>
                     <supplied reason="lost">vachara</supplied>
                  </w>
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          </ab>
B
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
						            <w xml:id="tok3860">bhaga<unclear>va</unclear>
						            </w>
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          </ab>
C
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
						            <w xml:id="tok3862">samuda</w>
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          </ab>
D
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
						            <w xml:id="tok3865">makuda<unclear>sa</unclear>
						            </w>
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          </ab>

Apparatus

  • (1) [virap]urusadatasa sa/// (vachara) DCS . [ti]ṭhavita[ṁ] KR . Raghunath's reading represents the text found on ARIE 1959-60: B.95 , i.e., the end of EIAD 36.
  • (2) bhaga[va] DCS . baga KR . Raghunath 2001: 190 notes: “Read Bhagavato ”.

Translation

(...) year of (...) Vīrapurisadatta (...) the Bhagavant (...)

Raghunath wrongly speaks of label inscriptions.

Secondary bibliography