- Support
- Fragment of an octagonal pillar; dimensions unknown.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. Inscribed area: h. 21.5 × w. 33.5 cm.
- Date
- Undated. Attributable to the 2nd or 3rd century CE on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Presumably erected originally near findspot.
- Provenance
- Discovered in the village Gangaperuru in 1939. Present whereabouts unknown.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s) of estampage(s):
- Srinivasan
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First edited by Srinivasan 1965-66 and then by Parabrahma Sastry 1977: 1 (1) . Although no reference is made to any previous edition, Parabrahma Sastry's 1977 publication almost certainly concerns the same inscription as that published by Srinivasan. It is re-edited here from published documentation.
(1)
+
?
r.
°ācariyana[ṁ]
◊
putasa
(2)
[na]radasagotasa
sivadā[sa]
gogaha[ṇa]
(3)sagām[e]
saga[gatasa]
chāy[ā]khaṁbh[o]
(1) + ? r. °ācariyana[ṁ] ◊ putasa
(2) [na]radasagotasa sivadā[sa] gogaha[ṇa] -
(3)sagām[e] saga[gatasa] chāy[ā]khaṁbh[o]
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok4249">r<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="aksarapart"/>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok4250">°ācariyana<unclear>ṁ</unclear>
</w>
<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
<w xml:id="tok4252">putasa</w>
<lb n="2"/>
<w xml:id="tok4253">
<unclear>na</unclear>radasagotasa</w>
<w xml:id="tok4254">sivadā<unclear>sa</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok4254bis">gogaha<unclear>ṇa</unclear>
<lb n="3" break="no"/>sagām<unclear>e</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok4257">saga<unclear>gatasa</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok4258">chāy<unclear>ā</unclear>khaṁbh<unclear>o</unclear>
</w>
</ab>
- (1) ? r. .ura PRS [pari] PVPS .
- (1) °ācariyana[ṁ] °ācariyanaṁ PRS °ācariya PVPS .
- (2) naradasagotasa sudasa gonasa PRS bhārādasa gotasa PVPS .
- (2) sivadā[sa] We expect sivadā[sa] ⟨sa⟩ , a clear instance of haplography.
- (2) gogaha[ṇa] gogahane PRS [gārgabha] PVPS .
- (3) saga[gata]sa sagaha[ta]sa PRS -sa ge ? ? [sa] PVPS .
- (3) chāy[ā]khaṁbh[o] chāyakhaṁ[bha] PRS chāya khaṁbha PVPS .
Memorial pillar of Sivadāsa of the Nārada gotra, son of the
(...) masters, who died (lit. went to the heavens, svargagata) in battle, (on the occasion of) a cattle raid.
- bookmark ARIE 1939-40: 228, B.17
- bookmark Parabrahma Sastry 1975: no. 366
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 178 (59A)