Metadata

Support
Bottom part of a memorial pillar; h. 93 ×  w. 39 ×  d. 17 cm.
Text
Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 8.5 ×  w. 33 cm .
Date
Attributable to about the 4th century CE on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Nagarjunakonda.
Provenance
Nothing is known about date and location of discovery of this memorial pillar. Identified at Nagarjunakonda Museum (acc. no. 513) in February 2016.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • photos JM 2017
  • photos AL 2017
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    Previously unpublished; edited here from our own photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

    Edition

    (1) + + ? + + + + + + + + + + + + + /// (2) [ga]tasa ◊ peragaṇhasa ◊ pe[rama]ḷ(i)bha(ḍasa) (3) paḍitasa ◊ chāy[ā]thabho

    (1) + + ? + + + + + + + + + + + + + ///
    (2) [ga]tasa ◊ peragaṇhasa ◊ pe[rama]ḷ(i)bha(ḍasa)
    (3) paḍitasa ◊ chāy[ā]thabho 
    <ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
                    <lb n="1"/>
                    <gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/>
                    <gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
                    <gap reason="lost" quantity="13" unit="character"/>
                    <milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="right"/>
                    
                    <lb n="2"/>
               <w xml:id="tok5119">
                  <unclear>ga</unclear>tasa</w>
                    <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
                    <w xml:id="tok5121">peragaṇhasa</w>
                    <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
                    <w xml:id="tok5123">pe<unclear>rama</unclear>ḷ<supplied reason="lost">i</supplied>bha<supplied reason="lost">ḍasa</supplied>
               </w>
                    <lb n="3"/>
                    <w xml:id="tok5126">paḍitasa</w>
                    <space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="character"/>
                    <w xml:id="tok5130">chāy<unclear>ā</unclear>thabho</w>
                </ab>

    Apparatus

    • (2) pe[rama]ḷ(i)bha(ḍasa) Compare the parallel in EIAD 64, l. 4: peramaḍibhaḍa(sa) , followed by paḍitasa in l. 5. (A vestige of the same sequence is also preserved in 63, l. 1.) The akṣara here read as [ra], based on that parallel, looks more like <tu>.

    Translation

    Memorial pillar of Peragaṇha, a fallen soldier [fighting under the leadership] of Peramaḷi, gone to ...

    Commentary

    • (1) peragaṇhasa For names with pera-, besides peramaḷi in this text and peramaḍi in EIAD 64, see 30, l. 10 and 232.