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EIAD: 47 [2] Raghunath no.: 30 [3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.: 39 [4] Tsukamoto no.: Naga 53 [5] Lüders no.: [6] Support : broken pillar [7] (Faces:) Lines: 17 [8] H: 130 [9] W: 40 [10] D: 30 [11] H: 76 [12] W: 32 [13] Language(s): MIA [14] Original locality: Nagarjunakonda Site-9 or site 11?), maṇḍapa [15] Present locality: NM 560 [16] Primary bibliography: Sircar 1963-64a: 7-9 (2.A). [17] Secondary bibliography: ARIE 1938-39: 71, B.452; 1945-46: B.195; 1959-60: B.100. — Raghunath 2001: 135-7 (30). [18] Visual documentation: Est. ASI; Sircar; Raghunath; RTI and photos JM 2017 [19] Substance of inscription: establishment of a stone maṇḍapa and a store room [20] Remarks: fragmentary [21] : --> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="eng"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Pillar from site 9 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 8</title> <respStmt> <resp>EpiDoc Encoding</resp> <persName ref="part:jodo"> <forename>John</forename> <surname>Doe</surname> </persName> </respStmt> <respStmt> <resp>intellectual authorship of edition</resp> <persName ref="part:jodo"> <forename>John</forename> <surname>Doe</surname> </persName> </respStmt> <respStmt> <resp>Conversion of encoding for DHARMA</resp> <persName ref="part:jodo"> <forename>John</forename> <surname>Doe</surname> </persName> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <authority>DHARMA</authority> <pubPlace>Paris</pubPlace> <idno type="filename">DHARMA_INSEIAD00047</idno> <availability> <licence target="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> <p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence. 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However, judging from the parallel EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>, two lines seem to be missing above this.</note></app><app loc="3"><lem>°ehuvuḷa<unclear>cā</unclear>tamūlasa</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">°ehuvuḷacāntamūlasa</rdg><!-- There is a blob above the line between presumptive <cā> and <ta>. Could it be an interlinear correction?--></app><app loc="3-4"><lem><supplied reason="lost">aṭha</supplied><unclear>ma</unclear></lem><note>We follow here the restoration suggested by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/></bibl>, on the basis of the comparison with the closely related EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>. However, the restoration <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">satama</foreign> can not be excluded, and the apparent absence of akṣaras before <foreign>ma</foreign> at the beginning of l. 4 is surprising.</note></app><app loc="4"><lem>ca<unclear>v</unclear>utha</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">cavuṭha</rdg></app><app loc="4"><lem>pa<milestone unit="fragment" n="right"/><supplied reason="lost">darasa</supplied></lem><note>Thus also <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/></bibl>. Cf. EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>, l. 6, where the reading of this word is alas problematic.</note></app><app loc="6"><lem>-yānāṁ</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">-yānā</rdg></app><app loc="6"><lem>seṭhivaravaḍham<unclear>āne</unclear></lem><note>There is enough space for one or two more akṣara after the break, but the parallel from EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref> does not have anything before the word <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn"><unclear>cātudisika</unclear>sa</foreign>.</note><!-- probably indication of the owner of the vaḍhamana as a merchant. Perhaps mention possible connection with place-name seṭhivāda in EIAD 268, l. 1 or with Telugu place-names in -vāḍa?--></app><app loc="7"><lem><supplied reason="lost">cā</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>t</unclear>udi<add place="below">ṇi</add>sīkasa</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">…sikasa</rdg><note>Sircar notes : <cit><quote>The damaged aksharas at the beginning of the line look like a initial <hi rend="italic">Udini°</hi></quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/>: <citedRange>9, n. 1</citedRange></bibl></cit>. The parallel text from EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>, l. 9 is also damaged but can be read <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn"><unclear>cātudisi</unclear>kasa</foreign>. We therefore expect that <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">cātudisikasa</foreign> was intended also here.</note></app><app loc="8"><lem><unclear>maḍa</unclear>vaṁ</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara"><unclear>ḍa</unclear>va</rdg></app><app loc="8"><lem>pa<unclear>ḍ</unclear>iṭhapeti</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">padiṭhapeti</rdg></app><app loc="8"><lem>bharanakalaṁ</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">bhara<unclear>sa</unclear>laṁ</rdg><note>The shape of the <foreign>ra</foreign> is curious, but we take the mark before it as an accident of the stone. Sircar notes: <cit><quote>The intended reading (for <hi rend="italic">bhara-</hi>) seems to be <hi rend="italic">bhaḍāra-</hi> or <hi rend="italic">bhaṁḍāra-</hi>; the lost aksharas are <hi rend="italic">-ya niṭha-</hi></quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/>: <citedRange>9, n. 3</citedRange></bibl></cit>. </note></app><app loc="9"><lem><unclear>ca</unclear>na</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">veti</rdg></app><app loc="9"><lem>-sa<unclear>ṁ</unclear>gha<unclear>maṁ</unclear>galo</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">saṁghamagala</rdg></app><app loc="10"><lem><supplied reason="lost">na</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>ga</unclear>ravara</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">… vara</rdg><note>But <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/></bibl> suggests restoring <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">nagara</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="11"><lem>-dhaṁmakārak<unclear>o</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">-dhamakāraka</rdg><note>There is no trace of an akṣara after this word, and in the light of the parallel in EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref> we don’t expect anything before <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">upāsako</foreign>. This implies that l. 11 was shorter than l. 10, and especially much shorter than ll. 12-14. The last words of these lines were apparently written on the lateral face of the pillar, whose front face narrows in its center.</note></app><app loc="12"><lem><unclear>°u</unclear>pāsako caṁdasirī</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara"><unclear>°u</unclear>phāsako ca<unclear>da</unclear>sirī</rdg><note>With correction of <foreign>phā</foreign> to <foreign>pā</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="12"><lem><unclear>n</unclear><supplied reason="lost">āgasi</supplied><unclear>rī ca</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara"><unclear>nā</unclear><supplied reason="lost">gasiri</supplied></rdg></app><app loc="13"><lem>piyabhātukā ra<unclear>ṁ</unclear>ño</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">piyabhātuko raño</rdg><note>EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>, l. 13, also preserves what might be read as a <foreign>ko</foreign>. Emend accordingly.</note></app><app loc="13"><lem>°ā<unclear>yu</unclear><supplied reason="lost">vadha</supplied><unclear>n</unclear><milestone unit="fragment" n="right"/><supplied reason="lost">ik</supplied><gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="component"/></lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">°ā<unclear>yu</unclear><supplied reason="lost">vadhanike</supplied></rdg></app><app loc="14-15"><lem><supplied reason="lost">putabha</supplied>riyañ<unclear>ā</unclear>timittasāla</lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">… riyake nimitta sālā</rdg><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/></bibl> suggests a reconstruction <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn"><supplied reason="lost">pūjā bha</supplied>riyake</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="16"><lem><unclear>gaṁ</unclear> puña<supplied reason="lost">ṁ</supplied><add place="above">dā</add>nā<space quantity="1" unit="character"/><unclear>°apanā ji</unclear><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/></lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara">…purato <unclear>kā</unclear>rāpitā…</rdg><note>Compare EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00048.xml">48</ref>, l. 16. We tentatively suppose that <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">dātā</foreign>, to be understood as <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">dataṁ</foreign>, was intended here as well.</note></app><app loc="17"><lem>ma<unclear>na</unclear>- </lem><rdg source="bib:Sircara"><unclear>mane</unclear></rdg></app></listApp></div><div type="translation"><p n="1–5"> In the (eighth) year of King Vāsithīputa (Siri-)Ehuvulacāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, (son) of Great King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, son of…, in the fourth fortnight of summer, on the fifteenth day. </p><p n="5–17"> In Siripavvata, at Vijayapura, for the great school of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas, in the estate of the excellent Guild’s Chief, the lay follower Candasiri, honoring the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha, the bestower of many pious gifts at excellent cities, mountains and market-places, and (his) beloved brother Nāgasiri, established a stone <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">maṇḍapa</foreign> for the noble community of the four directions... <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">bharanakala</foreign> ... (for the) increase of the life-span of the king, in homage to his parents, he gave (the first?) share of the merit to his son(s), wife, relatives, friends, and brother(s)-in-law. (This is also) for his own happiness ...</p></div><div type="commentary"><p n="9"><term>budha<space quantity="1" unit="character"/>dha<unclear>ṁ</unclear>masa<unclear>ṁ</unclear>gha<unclear>maṁ</unclear>galo</term><note>Literally, ‘for whom the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are auspicious’. The expression is rare, as far as we know, but it occurs in the Mahāvastu, within the Abhiyavastu, as an epithet of Uttiya. Cf. Mahāvastu (ed. <bibl><ptr target="bib:Senarta"/></bibl>) I 36: <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">śraddhāprasanno buddhadharmasaṁghamaṅgalo nandādīnāṁ bhikṣūṇām abhiprasanno</foreign>.</note></p><p n="7"><!-- CC: Is this commentary about disika useful as there is already an entrance for it in the apparatus ? --><term><supplied reason="lost">cā</supplied><milestone unit="fragment" n="left"/><unclear>t</unclear>udi<add place="below">ṇi</add>sīkasa</term><note>This probably stands for <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn"><supplied reason="lost">cātu</supplied>disikasa</foreign>, being part of the formula of the universal community.</note></p></div><div type="bibliography"><p>First described and edited by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircara"/>: <citedRange>7-9 (2.A)</citedRange></bibl>. Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.</p><listBibl type="primary"><bibl/></listBibl><listBibl type="secondary"><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1938-39: 71, no. B.452; </citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1945-46: no. B.195</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1959-60: no. B.100</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Srinivasan1979a"/><citedRange>no. 39</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Tsukamoto1996"/><citedRange>no. Naga 53</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Raghunath2001"/>: <citedRange>135-7, no. 30</citedRange></bibl></listBibl></div></body></text> </TEI>