Metadata

Support
Fragment of a memorial pillar; dimensions unknown.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 2 lines. Inscribed area unknown.
Date
Attributable to about the 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Possibly erected originally at findspot.
Provenance
Reported to have been found at Nagarjunakonda, during excavations by the Department of Archaeology between 1954 and 1955, in “a field near the palace area” (ARIE). May this be equated with site 113? Not identified during fieldwork from February 2016 onward.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • What must be the ASI estampage is reproduced by Sircar 1955 (I) and 1961–62b (I).
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First edited by Sircar 1961-62b: 209 (I). Re-edited here from published documentation.

    Edition

    (1) … (pera) /// [ma]ḍ[i]bha[ḍasa] /// … (2) … /// ch[ā]yāthaṁbho

    (1) … (pera) /// [ma]ḍ[i]bha[ḍasa] /// …
    (2) … /// ch[ā]yāthaṁbho 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok3868">
                  <supplied reason="lost">pera</supplied>
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
                  <unclear>ma</unclear>ḍ<unclear>i</unclear>bha<unclear>ḍasa</unclear>
               </w>
					          <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok3872">ch<unclear>ā</unclear>yāthaṁbho</w>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) (pera) [ma]ḍ[i]bha[ḍasa] [ma]ḍabha[ḍana] DCS . We restore after the parallels in EIAD 64, l. 4 and 132, l. 2.
    • (2) ch[ā]yāthaṁbho ch[ā]yaṁthaṁbho DCS .

    Translation

    Memorial pillar of ..., ... soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi ...

    Secondary bibliography