- Support
- Drum slab; h. 136 × w. 98 × d. 12.5 cm.
- Text
- Middle Indo-Aryan, Southern Brāhmī script. h. 70 × w. 3 cm.
- Date
- Undated. Attributable to the period between the 1st and 2nd century CE on palaeographic grounds.
- Origin
- Dupadu.
- Provenance
- The precise findspot and date of discovery are unknown. Identified at Amaravathi Museum and Interpretation Centre (acc. no. AM-17) in February 2016.
- Visual Documentation
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Photo(s):
- Est. ASI = ARIE 1984-85, pl. I
- photos JM 2017
- Editors
- Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.
- Publication history
- First described and edited by ARIE 1984-85: B.36, followed by Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998: 124 and then by Padmanabha Sastry 2004a: 164 (6) . Padmanabha Sastry reproduces the faulty text of the former, but with different spacing. Only the reading published in Hanumantha Rao is recorded in our apparatus.
(1)
///
samaṇikāya
saghaya
ya
[°i]darakhi[ta]ya ya
◊
d[e]yadha[ma]
[pa] (ṭo)
(1) /// samaṇikāya saghaya ya [°i]darakhi[ta]ya ya ◊ d[e]yadha[ma] [pa] (ṭo)
<ab xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<lb n="1"/>
<milestone unit="fragment" type="lost" subtype="left"/>
<w xml:id="tok6871">samaṇikāya</w>
<w xml:id="tok6872">saghaya</w>
<w xml:id="tok6873">ya</w>
<w xml:id="tok6874"><unclear>°i</unclear>darakhi<unclear>ta</unclear>ya</w> <w xml:id="tok6874bis">ya</w>
<space type="horizontal" quantity="1" unit="chars"/>
<w xml:id="tok6875">d<unclear>e</unclear>yadha<unclear>ma</unclear>
</w>
<w xml:id="tok6876">
<unclear>pa</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ṭo</supplied>
</w>
</ab>
A slab as pious gift of ... and of the religious Saghā (Skt. Saṅghā) and Idarakhitā (Skt. Indrarakṣitā).
- bookmark IAR 1976-77: 3
- bookmarkPant and Subba Reddy 1988: 665
- bookmarkSubha Reddy 2005-2006: 1441-1442