Metadata

Support
Limestone slab; h. 147.3 ×  w. 44.5 ×  d. 7.5 cm.
Text
Sanskrit language, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 145 ×  w. 45 cm .
Date
Attributable to the 7th–9th-century period, on palaeographic grounds.
Origin
Amaravati.
Provenance
The marble stone was discovered before 1816 (Fergusson 1873 pl. XLVII: site plan with findspot marked) but was subsequently lost. It was rediscovered by Sewell among the slabs which had been transfered from South Kensington to the British Museum. Identified at the British Museum (acc. no. 1880,0709.67) on 11 May 2017.
Visual Documentation
Photo(s):
  • Knox 1992, no. 130.
  • Images available in www.britishmuseum.org/collection: “1880,0709.67”.
    • Photo(s) of estampage(s):
  • Sewell 1882, pl. IV. Image available in www.britishmuseum.org/collection: “1880,0709.67”.
    • Editors
    Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier, with contributions by Stefan Baums and Ingo Strauch.
    Publication history
    First published by Prinsep 1937 . Published again in Sewell 1880: 63-6 , with a new edition by J. Eggeling. Re-edited here from published documentation, British Museum photographs, and after autopsy of the stone.

    Edition

    (1) + + + + + /// yenānyāsu tīrtthikadevatā[su] /// … (2) + + /// reṇa vā mātr̥kādhareṇa vā śīlavatā /// … (3) + /// m·paripālanīyaṁ cīvarapiṇḍapātaśayanāsa[na] /// … (4) karttavyaṁ sūtravinayābhidharmmapāṭhakair bhbhikṣu[bhi] (ḥ) /// … (pā) (5)rājikām āpattim āpannena na vastavyaṁ saṁghāvaśe[ṣa] /// … (6) nyathā praticchāde sati na vastavyam· saṁgho yadā[ne] /// … (7) dekaṁ dātavyaṁ śīlasam·pannebhyo śrāmaṇerebhyaḥ pi[ṭa] /// … (8) tavyaṁ dhārmmakathikāya triguṇo lābhaḥ bauddhatārika /// … (9) sya °avasthānan na dātavyaṁ saddharmmalekhakāya dviguṇo l(ā) /// (bhaḥ) (10) ghaṭastūparājāya māsam pratimāsam· pū /// … (11) nulepanaiḥ vaiśākhapūrṇṇamāsyām viśeṣamr̥ /// … (12) prati °utsukena parivāreṇa bhavitavyaṁ °iti dha /// … (13) mātrādikasya vā mama puṇyarāśer bhbhāgo bha /// … (mā) (14)tr̥ghātakapitr̥ghātaka°arhhadghātakadevadvi[j] . /// … (15) mahāpāpakāriṇāṁ gatiṁ ye na paripāḷayanti bhu /// … (16) jña saṁghasanmīḷanam kr̥tvā mahāghoro gniḥ pra ? /// … (17) ro tāvat ti⟪ṣṭha⟫tu buddhasya śāsanaṁ lokaśāsa[na]ṁ °abhī ? /// … (18) lam·baśākho śāsanavr̥kṣaś ciraṁ sthātu || sthātu di /// … (19) samagro sarvvo ca loko sukhī bhavatu || yāva /// … (20) [vi]citaraṁgapracalitamakarakṣobhitām·b[u]s sa /// …

    (1) + + + + + /// yenānyāsu tīrtthikadevatā[su] /// …
    (2) + + /// reṇa vā mātr̥kādhareṇa vā śīlavatā /// …
    (3) + /// m·paripālanīyaṁ cīvarapiṇḍapātaśayanāsa[na] /// …
    (4) karttavyaṁ sūtravinayābhidharmmapāṭhakair bhbhikṣu[bhi] (ḥ) /// … (pā) -
    (5)rājikām āpattim āpannena na vastavyaṁ saṁghāvaśe[ṣa] /// …
    (6) nyathā praticchāde sati na vastavyam· saṁgho yadā[ne] /// …
    (7) dekaṁ dātavyaṁ śīlasam·pannebhyo śrāmaṇerebhyaḥ pi[ṭa] /// …
    (8) tavyaṁ dhārmmakathikāya triguṇo lābhaḥ bauddhatārika /// …
    (9) sya °avasthānan na dātavyaṁ saddharmmalekhakāya dviguṇo l(ā) /// (bhaḥ)
    (10) ghaṭastūparājāya māsam pratimāsam· pū /// …
    (11) nulepanaiḥ vaiśākhapūrṇṇamāsyām viśeṣamr̥ /// …
    (12) prati °utsukena parivāreṇa bhavitavyaṁ °iti dha /// …
    (13) mātrādikasya vā mama puṇyarāśer bhbhāgo bha /// … (mā) -
    (14)tr̥ghātakapitr̥ghātaka°arhhadghātakadevadvi[j] . /// …
    (15) mahāpāpakāriṇāṁ gatiṁ ye na paripāḷayanti bhu /// …
    (16) jña saṁghasanmīḷanam kr̥tvā mahāghoro gniḥ pra ? /// …
    (17) ro tāvat ti⟪ṣṭha⟫tu buddhasya śāsanaṁ lokaśāsa[na]ṁ °abhī ? /// …
    (18) lam·baśākho śāsanavr̥kṣaś ciraṁ sthātu || sthātu di /// …
    (19) samagro sarvvo ca loko sukhī bhavatu || yāva /// …
    (20) [vi]citaraṁgapracalitamakarakṣobhitām·b[u]s sa /// … 
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    Apparatus

    • (3) m·paripālanīyaṁ On the first preserved akṣara, we notice a vertical stroke that seems to note a virāma, despite the fact that the akṣara also bears a subscript <p>. See the same vertical stroke on <mpa>/<m·pa> in l. 7; see also the linear notation of <mba> as <m·ba> in l. 18, and of <mbu> as <m·b[u] > in l. 20.
    • (3) bhbhikṣu[bhi] (ḥ) bhbhikṣu[bhiḥ?] RS .
    • (5) rājikām Reconstruct (pā)rājikām.
    • (6) yadā[ne] yadā RS .
    • (6) saṁgho yadā[ne] This might be a mistake for saṁghāya dā[ne] (na) .
    • (7) dekaṁ ṭekaṁ RS .
    • (11) viśeṣamr̥ viśeṣa RS .
    • (12) °iti dha °iti ma RS .
    • (14) devadvi[j] . devadvi[ja] RS .
    • (16) jña jñā RS .
    • (17) °abhī °abhi RS .
    • (18) lam·baśākho lambasākho RS .
    • (18) sthātu di sthātu ci RS .
    • (19) yāva yāvad RS .
    • (20) [vī]cītaraṁgapracalitamakarakṣobhitām·b[u]s d vīcitaraṁgapracalitamakarakṣobhitāmbus RS . Cf. Aśokāvadāna (Mukhopadhyaya 30): anibalacalitabhinnavīcītaraṅgakṣubhitam iva mahāsamudraṃ.

    Translation

    (...) by whom (...) towards the other deities of the tīrthikas, or holder of (...), or holder of the Mātr̥kās, (or) moral (...) is to be protected, (...) of robes, alms, beddings and seats (...) is to be made. Monks, who recite the Sūtra, Vinaya and Abhidharmas (...) must not live with somebody who has committed a pārājika offence. (They) must not live with somebody (who has committed) a saṃghāvaśeṣa (offence), unless it is concealed. When the saṃgha by this (...) one (...) is to be given. To the śrāmaṇeras that are endowed with morality (...) is to be given. To the Expounder of the Dharma a threefold benefit (is due). (To the) bauddhatārika (...) residence (avasthāna) must not be given to (...). To the copyist of the true Dharma a twofold benefit (is due). To the °ghaṭastūparāja month by month for the worship (...) with (...) and oils. On the full-moon day of Vaiśākha, the retinue must behave zealously towards (...) special (...). May (my) mother, etc. get a share of my accumulation of merit. Those (...) , who do not protect (this gift), (will experience) the destiny of the great sinners, like the killer of a mother, the killer of a father, the killer of an Arhat, (and him who does not respect?) gods and twice-borns. A most most terrible fire, having obscured the saṃgha (...) So long let the instruction of the Buddha last (as) instruction for the world (...)-. Let the tree of the instruction, having as its hanging branches (...), last long. Let (...) last long (...). Let the entire and whole world become happy. As long (...) water agitated by the moving makaras that stir the waves (...)

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