Metadata

Support
Fragment of a polygonal pillar in limestone; h. 51 ×  w. 17 ×  d. 5.7 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 17.3 ×  w. 14.5 cm .
Date
Incomplete dating formula, possibly in some regnal year of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, approximately between 250 and 300 CE.
Origin
Phanigiri.
Provenance
Discovered during excavations conducted between 2001 and 2007 at Phanigiri, in the multi-pillared congregation hall to the northwest of the Mahāstūpa. Identified at the Telangana State Archaeological Museum in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos AL 2017
    • Editors
    Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
    Publication history
    First described and edited by Subrahmanyam et al. 2008c: 36 (6) . Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.

    Edition

    (1) /// [dh]asa ◊ cāṁtamūlamahārā[ja] /// (2) ///hārājasa ◊ sirināgissa[ra] /// (sa) (3) /// [pakha]ṁ [6] ◊ divasaṁ padhamaṁ ///

    (1) /// [dh]asa ◊ cāṁtamūlamahārā[ja] ///
    (2) ///hārājasa ◊ sirināgissa[ra] /// (sa)
    (3) /// [pakha]ṁ [6] ◊ divasaṁ padhamaṁ /// 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4938">
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
                  <unclear>dh</unclear>asa</w>
					          <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4940">cāṁtamūlamahārā<unclear>ja</unclear>
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
               </w>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4943">
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>hārājasa</w>
					          
					          <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4945">sirināgissa<unclear>ra</unclear>
                  <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
                  <supplied reason="lost">sa</supplied>
               </w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4949">
						            <unclear>pakha</unclear>ṁ</w>
					          <num xml:id="tok4950" value="6">
						            <unclear>6</unclear>
					          </num>
					          <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4952">divasaṁ</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok4953">padhamaṁ</w>
					          <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
				        </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (1) [dh]asa It should probably be reconstructed (namo bu) /// [dh]asa, (namo saṁmasaṁbu) /// [dh]asa.

    Translation

    (Homage) to the (...) (Perfect) Buddha! (...) first day (...) of Great King Siri-Nāgissa(ra) (...), Great King Cāntamūla (...)