Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00011

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence. To view a copy of the licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

Copyright (c) 2019-2025 by .

 2019-2025 Āyāka pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 6 Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa DHARMA_INSEIAD00011

Copyright (c) 2017 by Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, Ingo Strauch and Vincent Tournier.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

 DHARMAbase EFEO EIAD 11 Nagarjunakonda Museum 794

The project DHARMA has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 809994).

Public URIs with the prefix bib to point to a Zotero Group Library named ERC-DHARMA whose data are open to the public.

Internal URIs using the part prefix to point to person elements in the DHARMA_IdListMembers_v01.xml file.

 EIAD file transformed to follow the DHARMA encoding structure. Metadata extracted to be checked and updated according DHARMA workflow. Done through XSLT.
naka Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhiputasa Ikhākusa siricātamūlasa sodarā bhagini raño māḍharīputasa sirivirapurisadatasa pituchā mahāsenapatisa mahātalavarasa vāsiṭhīputasa pūkīyānaṁ kaṁdasirisa bhariyā samaṇabamaṇakavaṇavaṇijakadīnānugahavelāmikadānapaṭibhāgavochinadhārapadāyini savasādhuvachalā mahādānapatini mahātalavari khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā cātisiri Apano Ubhayakulasa Atichita m anāgatavaṭamānakānaṁ parināmetunaṁ Ubhayalokahitasukhāvahathanāya Atano ca nivāṇasaṁpatisaṁpādake savalokahitasukhāvahathanāya ca Imaṁ khaṁbhaṁ patithapitaṁ ti .raṁño sirivīrapurisadatasa sava 6vāpa 6diva 10
... Cāntisirī — uterine sister of ... Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla the Ikṣvāku ... whose will is unimpeded (in all matters); paternal aunt of King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta; wife of Great General, Great Talavara Vāsiṭṭhīputta Kandasiri of the Pūkīyas; giver of an unequalled and uninterrupted stream as a favor to ascetics, brahmans, beggars, mendicants and the wretched; affectionate to all good people; great donor; Great-Talavara-wife, mother of Khandasāgaraṇṇaka — having dedicated (the merit) to the past, future and present members of her family on both sides, established this pillar for the sake of well‐being and happiness in both worlds, for achieving the fortune of nirvāṇa for herself and for the sake of bringing about well-being and happiness of all people. In the 6th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 6th fortnight of the rainy season, on the 10th day.

First edited by : 85-6, 197 (no. 8A); wrongly identified by the same author with ’s C2 (our EIAD 5). We re-edit the text here from our own photos, and after autopsy of the stone.