Metadata

Support
Maṇḍapa pillar; dimensions unknown.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 2 separate graffiti.
Date
Undated. Attributable to the 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Presumably erected originally at findspot.
Provenance
Discovered at Nagarjunakonda, site 61, before 1960. Present whereabouts unknown.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • ASI 1959-60: B. 73
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier.
    Publication history
    First published in ARIE 1959-60: B.73 . Re-edited here from our photos of the ASI estampage.

    Edition

    1
    narasama[ya]
    2
    kumārikā[ya]
    1
    narasama[ya]
    2
    kumārikā[ya]
    1
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
				
					          	<w xml:id="tok4473">narasama<unclear>ya</unclear></w>
					          </ab>
    2
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
						
					          	<w xml:id="tok4474">kumārikā<unclear>ya</unclear></w>
					          </ab>

    Apparatus

    1
    • narasama[ya] taralamagha ARIE. We previously read taralama[pa].
    • kumārikā[ya] kumārikā[ma] ARIE. We previously accepted the ARIE reading.

    Translation

    Of Narasamā. Of Kumārikā.

    Secondary bibliography