- Support
- Memorial pillar; h. 102 × w. 28 × d. 16 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 19 × w. 24 cm .
- Date
- Attributable to about the 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Nagarjunakonda.
- Provenance
- Discovered at Site-14 in the course of excavations by the Department of Archaeology between 1954 and 1955. Raghunath's Site-113 is an error. IAR is clear about the provenance of this item. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 204) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- photos AL 2017
- photos JM 2017
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- Sircar 1955 (II); 1961-62b (II).
RTI: RTI JM 2017 - Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First described and edited by Sircar 1955: 43 ; edited again by Sircar 1961-62b: 209-10 (II) . Re-edited here from the available visual documentation and after autopsy of the stone.
(1)
(magala)raṇavathavasa
kulaputa[sa]
(2)
?
rabāna
rajamisir[i]ka[la]
?
(3)
[gā]masama[ka]sa
◊
p[u]ta[sa]
(4)
si[ba]sa
◊
peramaḍibhaḍa(sa)
…
(5)
paḍitasa
◊
chāyāthaṁ(bho)
(1) (magala)raṇavathavasa kulaputa[sa]
(2) ? rabāna rajamisir[i]ka[la] ?
(3) [gā]masama[ka]sa ◊ p[u]ta[sa]
(4) si[ba]sa ◊ peramaḍibhaḍa(sa) …
(5) paḍitasa ◊ chāyāthaṁ(bho)
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<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
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- (1) (magala)raṇavathavasa (ga)raṇavathavasa DCS . Sircar restores maga⟨la⟩raṇa-. Parallel passages in EIAD 70, 71, 72 and 73, show that Sircar's idea was basically correct, but we do not think there is any need to suppose scribal omission of the syllable la.
- (2) rabāna ra[ja]misir[i]ka[la] ? (ma?)rabāna rājamisirikula(kasa) DCS .
- (3) [gā]masama[ka]sa damasama[ka]sa DCS .
- (3-4) p[u]ta[sa] si[ba]sa p[u]ta[si]sa[ba]sa DCS .
- (5) chāyāthaṁ(bho) chāy(ā)thaṁ(bho) DCS .
Memorial pillar of Siba, a fallen soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi,
resident of Magalaraṇa, son of a noble family (kulaputra), son of ... of the ...rabas.
- bookmark ARIE 1954-55: B.9
- bookmark IAR 1954-55: 23
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 59
- bookmark ARIE 1995-96: B.6
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Naga 59
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 162, 206 (no. 46)
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