Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa

Metadata

Support: Beam or doorstep in limestone; h. 34 × w. 175 × d. 40 cm. The inscription is engraved beside a “bow-and-arrow” symbol, the arrow being fixed in the bow.
Text: Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 2 lines. Inscribed area: h. 29 × w. 32 cm.
Date: Undated. Attributable on prosopographic and palaeographic grounds to the second half of the 3rd century CE.
Origin: Presumably placed 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: Photo(s):
AL 2017
Editors: Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
Publication history: First edited in ARIE 1959-60: no. B.76 . Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.

Edition

(1) kuramānasa (2) vidhikasa

(1) kuramānasa
(2) vidhikasa

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					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4468">kuramānasa</w>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4469">vidhikasa</w>
				        </ab>