- Support
- White marble pillar; h. 207 × w. 37 × d. 37 cm. Above the inscribed surface is a frieze of lions running from the right to the left.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 26 × w. unavailable cm .
- Date
- Undated. Attributable to the 3rd century CE on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Ghantasala.
- Provenance
- Discovered near the Ramaṇamma tank at Ghantasala and copied by Dr. Chhabra on the 1st January 1945. Identified at Ghantasala Museum (acc. no. 27), in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s) of estampage(s):
- Vogel
- Somasekhara Sarma
- Editors
- Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
- Publication history
- First edited and described by Vogel 1947-48: (A) and then by Somasekhara Sarma 1974: (A) . His publication, which does not mention Vogel’s, seems nevertheless to be directly based on it for readings and perhaps also for the estampages. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.
(1)
[s]
(i)dhaṁ
–
°ukhasirivadha(mane)
◊
kaṁṭakasalavathavеna
(2)
dhaṁmav[ā]niyaputena
◊
budhisirigahapatinā
◊
°imaṁ
(3)
selamaṁḍapo
◊
sagaṁdhakuḍiv[e]tikat[o]raṇo
kārito
ti
(1) [s] (i)dhaṁ – °ukhasirivadha(mane) ◊ kaṁṭakasalavathavеna
(2) dhaṁmav[ā]niyaputena ◊ budhisirigahapatinā ◊ °imaṁ
(3) selamaṁḍapo ◊ sagaṁdhakuḍiv[e]tikat[o]raṇo kārito ti
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- (1) -vadha(manе) -vadham[ā]ne JPhV . No trace of <ā> is detectable on the stone in the corresponding part of EIAD 98.
- (2) -kasala- -kasola- JPhV . But see Vogel 1947-48: 68 .
- (2) °imaṁ Except for a small part of <°i>, the entire word °imaṁ still visible on the EI estampage is now broken off.
Success! In the estate of Ukhasiri, the notable (gahapati) Budhisiri, son of Dhaṁmavāniya, resident of Kaṁṭakasala, caused to be made this stone
maṇḍapa, together
with a gandhakuṭī, a
railing (vedikā), and
a portal (toraṇa).
- bookmark ARIE 1944-45: B.90
- bookmark Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan 1979: no. 73
- bookmark Raghunath 2001: 191 (78)
- bookmark Tsukamoto 1996: no. Ghan 1