Metadata

Support
Broken slab; dimensions unknown..
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. 1 line. Inscribed area: unknown.
Date
Attributable to the Ikṣvāku period on palaeographic grounds and because the language is Sanskrit.
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) of estampage(s):
  • Est. ASI included in Munirathnam presentation 2017
    • 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: 37-8 (11) . In the absence of any visual documentation, we give here a conjecturally emended reading based on the latter’s edition.

    Edition

    (1) … śikhare ◊ ja(ṁ)budv(ī)pamūl(ā)c(ār)yya …

    (1) … śikhare ◊ ja(ṁ)budv(ī)pamūl(ā)c(ār)yya … 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					<lb n="1"/>
					
					<w xml:id="tok5007"><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
						<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character"/> śikhare <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/> ja<supplied reason="lost">ṁ</supplied>budv<supplied reason="lost">ī</supplied>pamūl<supplied reason="lost">ā</supplied>c<supplied reason="lost">ār</supplied>yya</w>
					<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character"/>
					<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"/>
				</ab>

    Translation

    on the (...) peak, the root-master of Jambudvīpa (...)