- Support
- Unknown support; h. unavailable × w. unavailable × d. unavailable cm.
- Text
- Sanskrit language, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable × w. unavailable cm .
- Date
- Attributable to the Ikṣvāku dynasty, between the 3rd century and 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Phanigiri.
- Provenance
- Discovered in the course of excavations conducted by the State Department of Archaeology and Museums over several seasons from 2001 to 2007. The precise date of discovery is unknown. Present whereabouts unknown.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s):
- Subrahmanyam et al. 2008: 25 (c, left)
- Editors
- Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
- Publication history
- First described and edited by von Hinüber 2013a: 11 . Re-edited here from published documentation.
(1)
[r]
(ā)
[j]ñaḥ
vāse(ṣ)ṭh(ī)
[p]u[t]ra(s)ya
(2)
.i
.i
yanādhivāsasya
(3)
[va]rṣaśatā
(1) [r] (ā) [j]ñaḥ vāse(ṣ)ṭh(ī) [p]u[t]ra(s)ya
(2) .i .i yanādhivāsasya
(3) [va]rṣaśatā
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<w xml:id="tok4837">
<unclear>r</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost">ā</supplied>
<unclear>j</unclear>ñaḥ</w>
<w xml:id="tok4838">vāse<supplied reason="lost">ṣ</supplied>ṭh<supplied reason="lost">ī</supplied>
<unclear>p</unclear>u<unclear>t</unclear>ra<supplied reason="lost">s</supplied>ya</w>
<lb n="2"/>
<w xml:id="tok4839">
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="aksarapart"/>i</w>
<w xml:id="tok4840">
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="aksarapart"/>i</w>
<w xml:id="tok4841">yanādhivāsasya</w>
<lb n="3"/>
<w xml:id="tok4842">
<unclear>va</unclear>rṣaśatā</w>
</ab>
- (1) [r] (ā) [j]ñaḥ rañe OvH'13 . Von Hinüber reads it as an additional line that he labels <1a>, misinterpreting the subscript <ña> as an akṣara in itself.
- (1) vāse(ṣ)ṭh(ī) [p]u[t]ra(s)ya vāsa.ṭha + + (s)ya OvH'13 .
- (2) yanādhivāsasya gatādhivāsasya OvH'13 .
- (3) [va]rṣaśatā varṣaśatā(ni) OvH'13 . The <tā> is however clearly the last akṣara of the line.
Of king Vāseṭhīputra (...), of the inhabitant of .i .i yana
(...), a hundred years.
- bookmark IAR 2003-04: 341 (3), (?)