Metadata

Support
Memorial pillar; h. 125 ×  w. 36 ×  d. 24 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 25 ×  w. 35 cm .
Date
Undated. Attributable to the period 250-350 CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Reported to have been found at Site-60, in sector S IV, division 189, trench E.2 in ARIE 1958-59: no. B.83 , no later than 1958. Identified in February 2016 at Nagarjunakonda Museum, in the fortification enclosure.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos AL 2017
  • photos JM 2017
    • Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • Sircar
    • 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 1963-64a: 16-7 (6.C.II) . Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar and after autopsy of the stone.

    Edition

    (1) (si) [dhaṁ] [-] mahāse[nāpa]tisa mahātala(va) [ra] (sa) (2) ? [raka]ha[ko]ḍuvakasa °aya[bhuti]sa (3) chāy[ekha]bha [|]

    (1) (si) [dhaṁ] [-] mahāse[nāpa]tisa mahātala(va) [ra] (sa)
    (2) ? [raka]ha[ko]ḍuvakasa °aya[bhuti]sa
    (3) chāy[ekha]bha [|] 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4154">
                  <supplied reason="lost">si</supplied>
                  <unclear>dhaṁ</unclear>
               </w>
					          <pc>
                  <unclear>-</unclear>
               </pc>
					          <w xml:id="tok4156">mahāse<unclear>nāpa</unclear>tisa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4157">mahātala<supplied reason="lost">va</supplied>
                  <unclear>ra</unclear>
                  <supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied>
               </w>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4159">
						            <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
						            <unclear>raka</unclear>ha<unclear>ko</unclear>ḍuvakasa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4160">°aya<unclear>bhuti</unclear>sa</w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4161">chāy<unclear>ekha</unclear>bha</w>
					          <pc>
                  <unclear>|</unclear>
               </pc>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) (si) /// [dhaṁ] [-] ... DCS . Sircar however notes: ““The damaged word here may be sidhaṁ.””
    • (1) mahātala(va) [ra] (sa) mahātala... DCS . Sircar notes: ““the lost aksharas are no doubt -varasa.””
    • (2) ? [raka]- [°arakama]- DCS . Sircar notes: ““Better read Arakasa separately from the compound.””
    • (3) chāy[ekha]bha chayakhabho DCS .

    Translation

    Success! Memorial pillar of the Great General, the Great Talavara ...rakahakoḍuvaka Ayabhuti (Āryabhūti).

    Secondary bibliography