Metadata

Support
octagonal colonette; h. 97 ×  w. diam. 15 ×  d.  cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 8 ×  w. 20 cm .
Date
Attributable to the Ikṣvāku period on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Ghantasala.
Provenance
Findspot and circumstances unknown, discovered no later than 1957. Identified at Ghantasala Museum (acc. no. 2) in February 2016.
Editors
Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
Publication history
First described and edited in ARIE 1956-57: no. B.41 . Re-edited here from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

Edition

(1) °uvās[i]kāya °ehana(2)mātūyā sivalay[e] (3) dānaṁ

(1) °uvās[i]kāya °ehana-
(2)mātūyā sivalay[e]
(3) dānaṁ 
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
					          <lb n="1"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok5034">°uvās<unclear>i</unclear>kāya</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok5035">°ehana<lb n="2" break="no"/>mātūyā</w>
					          <w xml:id="tok5037">sivalay<unclear>e</unclear>
					          </w>
					          <lb n="3"/>
					          <w xml:id="tok5038">dānaṁ</w>
				        </ab>

Apparatus

  • (2) sivalay[e] sivaliya ARIE . Cf. sivalā in EIAD 317. What we interpret as a vocalic marker <-e> is unsure, and might be an accident. We expect an ending <-yā>, but <-ye> could be possible as well.

Translation

Gift of the lay follower Sivalā (Śivalā), mother of Ehana.