Metadata

Support
Maṇḍapa pillar in limestone; h. 176 ×  w. 36 ×  d. 27 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan and Sanskrit, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable ×  w. unavailable cm . Five or six graffiti on 2 faces.
Date
Undated. Attributable to the 3rd century CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Discovered at Site-64, sector III, south-west of the Yaksha-Kubera temple. The precise date of discovery is unknown. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum, in the fortification enclosure, in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos AL 2017
  • photos JM 2017
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First edited by Raghunath 2001: 166 (49), 189 (71) . Raghunath’s 71 seems to be a partial repetition of his entry 49. Re-edited here from our own photographs after autopsy of the stone.

    Edition

    A
    vasusaṅghat. …
    B
    siṁhavattiḥ stha
    C
    °aṭhabhujasa
    D
    devapura paviḥ laya.........ka........... raḥ....... masi
    E
    bhaya
    A
    vasusaṅghat. …
    B
    siṁhavattiḥ stha
    C
    °aṭhabhujasa
    D
    devapura paviḥ laya.........ka........... raḥ....... masi
    E
    bhaya
    A
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <w xml:id="tok4030">vasusaṅghat<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="aksarapart"/>
                  </w>
						            <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          </ab>
    B
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <w xml:id="tok4031">siṁhavattiḥ</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok4032">stha</w>
					          </ab>
    C
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <w xml:id="tok4033">°aṭhabhujasa</w>
					          </ab>
    D
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <w xml:id="tok4034">devapura</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok4035">paviḥ</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok4036">laya.........ka...........</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok4037">raḥ.......</w>
						            <w xml:id="tok4038">masi</w>
					          </ab>
    E
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						            <w xml:id="tok4039">bhaya</w>
					          </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) vasusaṅghat. vasu saṁghāt. KR .

    Secondary bibliography