- Support
- Pillar; h. 150 × w. 40 × d. 13 cm. The inscription is engraved above a “bow-and-arrow” symbol, the arrow being fixed in the bow.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 1 line. Inscribed area: h. 16 × w. 14 cm.
- Date
- Undated. Attributable on prosopographic and palaeographic grounds to the second half of the 3rd century CE.
- Origin
- Presumably erected originally at findspot.
- Provenance
- Discovered before 1960 at Nagarjunakonda, Site 64, in the Yakṣa Kubera temple. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (in the fortification enclosure) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- AL 2017
- Sarkar 1968-71, pl. II.
Photo(s) of estampage(s):- Est. ASI
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First described in ARIE 1959-60: no. B.74 . Re-edited here from the published estampage and after autopsy of the stone.
(1)
vidhikasa
(1) vidhikasa
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<w xml:id="tok4467">vidhikasa</w>
</ab>
Of Vidhika.
- bookmark Sarkar 1968-71: 227
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 187 (no. 66)
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