- Support
- Buddhapāda; h. unavailable × w. unavailable × d. unavailable cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. unavailable × w. unavailable cm .
- Date
- Attributable to the Ikṣvāku period on palaeographic grounds, according to eiad-bibl:Chenna_Reddy2008.
- Origin
- Phanigiri.
- Provenance
- Discovered during excavations conducted between 2001 and 2007 at Phanigiri. Not identified during fieldwork from February 2016 onward.
- Visual Documentation
-
Photo(s):
- no image published
- Editors
- Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
- Publication history
- First described and edited by Subrahmanyam et al. 2008c: 33 (2) , its text given under (1). In the absence of any visual documentation, we give here a conjecturally emended reading based on the latter’s edition.
(1)
sidhaṁ
bhagavato
padāni
°apano
nivāṇasambharāthaṁ
karāpitam
iti
(1) sidhaṁ bhagavato padāni °apano nivāṇasambharāthaṁ karāpitam iti
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- (1) In the absence of visual documentation, this constitutes our conjecturally emended reading. Subrahmanyam et al. published this impossible reading: sidham bhagavato padani apani apana nivasanam barotha karapitamiti.
Success! The feet of the Bhagavant were caused to be made
for the sake of the prerequisites of his own nirvāṇa.
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