Metadata

Support
Memorial pillar; h. 107 ×  w. 36-40 ×  d. 20 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 14 ×  w. 34 cm .
Date
Undated. Attributable to the period 250-350 CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Reported to have been found at Site-113 in Sircar 1963-64a: 14 , not after 1957. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum, in the fortification enclosure, during fieldwork in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos AL 2017
    • Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • Sircar
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First described and edited by Sircar 1963-64a: 16 (6.B.III) . Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar.

    Edition

    (1) [ma]va[la]raṇa◊vathava[sa] [se]nāpat[i] (2) ? karadaru◊kumārasa ◊ ? ? ? ? bha[ḍa]naṁ (3) paḍitana[ṁ] [chā]yākhaṁbho

    (1) [ma]va[la]raṇa◊vathava[sa] [se]nāpat[i]
    (2) ? karadaru◊kumārasa ◊ ? ? ? ? bha[ḍa]naṁ
    (3) paḍitana[ṁ] [chā]yākhaṁbho 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4100">
                  <unclear>ma</unclear>va<unclear>la</unclear>raṇa<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>vathava<unclear>sa</unclear>
               </w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4103">
                  <unclear>se</unclear>nāpat<unclear>i</unclear>
               </w>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4105">karadaru<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>kumārasa</w>
					          <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="4" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4113">bha<unclear>ḍa</unclear>naṁ</w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4114">paḍitana<unclear>ṁ</unclear>
					          </w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4115">
						            <unclear>chā</unclear>yākhaṁbho</w>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) [ma]va[la]raṇa [mavala]raṇa DCS . Sircar suggests to emend magavalaraṇa.
    • (2) ? -[sa] DCS .
    • (2) ? ? ? ? [pasa]..... DCS . Sircar notes: “The intended word appears to be pasādita- or pasāditānaṁ as in Nos I-II above.”
    • (3) [chā]yākhaṁbho chayakhaṁbho DCS .

    Translation

    Memorial pillar of the killed soldiers (...) of the General Karadarukumāra, resident of Mavalaraṇa (= Magalaraṇa).

    Secondary bibliography