Metadata

Support
Lower fragment of an Āyaka pillar; h. unavailable ×  w. 31.5 ×  d. unavailable cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 13 ×  w. 31.5 cm .
Date
Attributable to the the 3rd or 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Phanigiri.
Provenance
The inscription is on the western Āyaka platform of the Mahāstūpa. Nothing is known about date and location of discovery. Identified in situ in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
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    • Editors
    Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
    Publication history
    First published in Baums et al. 2016: 377-8 .

    Edition

    (1) + + ? ? + ? … (2) gahapatikasa tuṁmakasa bhayaya budhaṁṇikā[ya] (3) deyadhaṁmaṁ bhagavato mahāpugalasa [ti]

    (1) + + ? ? + ? …
    (2) gahapatikasa tuṁmakasa bhayaya budhaṁṇikā[ya]
    (3) deyadhaṁmaṁ bhagavato mahāpugalasa [ti] 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4911">gahapatikasa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4912">tuṁmakasa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4913">bhayaya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4914">budhaṁṇikā<unclear>ya</unclear>
					          </w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4915">deyadhaṁmaṁ</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4916">bhagavato</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4917">mahāpugalasa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4918">
						            <unclear>ti</unclear>
					          </w>
				        </ab>

    Translation

    (...) Meritorious gift to the Bhagavant, the Great Man, of Budhaṇṇikā, the wife of the notable (gahapati) Tummaka.