Metadata

Support
Broken slab; 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. The inscription mentions king Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, who reigned approximately between 225 and 275 CE.
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
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First described and edited by Subrahmanyam et al. 2008c: 36 (7) . In the absence of any visual documentation, we give here a conjecturally emended reading based on the latter’s edition.

    Edition

    (1) srivira[pu] (2) ka amashara (3) napusa sa

    (1) srivira[pu]
    (2) ka amashara
    (3) napusa sa 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4998">srivira<unclear>pu</unclear>
					          </w>
					          <lb n="2"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok4999">ka</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok5000">amashara</w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok5001">napusa</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok5002">sa</w>
				        </ab>

    Translation

    (...) of Siri-Vīrapu(risadata) (...)