Metadata

Support
Pedestal of broken Buddha image in stone; h. unavailable ×  w. unavailable ×  d. unavailable cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable ×  w. unavailable cm .
Date
Undated. Attributable to the period 250-350 CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Reported to have been found at Site-9 in Sircar 1963-64a: 19 , no later than 1958. Not identified during fieldwork from February 2016 onward. Present whereabouts unknown.
Visual Documentation
    Rosen Stone 1994, ill. 108.
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: 19 (7.B.I) . Re-edited here from the published estampages.

    Edition

    (1) … rikasa koḍabudhisa bhariyāya ? ? lāya … (2) … (pa)///[t]iṭhavitaṁ ◊ paḍima

    (1) … rikasa koḍabudhisa bhariyāya ? ? lāya …
    (2) … (pa)///[t]iṭhavitaṁ ◊ paḍima 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4140">rikasa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4141">koḍabudhisa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4142">bhariyāya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4145">
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>lāya</w>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
<w xml:id="tok4147"><supplied reason="lost">pa</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/><unclear>t</unclear>iṭhavitaṁ</w> 
						<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4148">paḍima</w>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) rikasa DCS . Sircar notes : ““The intended word was something like nāgarika (i.e. belonging to the city of Vijayapurī) or pāvārika (Sanskrit prāvārika) which is found in some early inscriptions (above, Vol. XIX, pp. 66 (No. I), 97). A prāvārika was probably the maker of prāvāras, i.e. cloaks used by monks.””
    • (1) ? ? lāya [makā?]lāya DCS .
    • (pa)///[t]iṭhavitaṁ (pa)ti[ṭhāv]itaṁ DCS .

    Translation

    ...lā, wife of the ...rika Koḍabudhi, established (this) image.

    Secondary bibliography