Pillar from site 1 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, year 15 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00024

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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_INSEIAD00024

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mahāsenaparigahītasa Asamedhayājisa sahasahalasatasahasa Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāsiṭhīputasa bhagini mahāsenāpatisa
kaṁdasirisa khaṁdasāgaraṁṇakamātā cātisiri Apano raṁño māṭhariputasa Ikhākunaṁ Āyuvadhanīke vijayavejayike sukhanivāṇathanāya bhagavato mahācetiyapādamūle pavajitānaṁ nānādesasamanāgatānaṁ Api ca Apano Ubhayakulasa Atichita nikapanīke parināmetuna parigahe savaniyutaṁ cātusālaparigahitaṁ selamaṁṭava patiṭhapitaṁ raṁño sirivirapurisadatasa saṁva 105vāpa 8diva
-senaparigahītasa--senāpati parigahītasa-kaṁdasirisakaṁdasirisacātisiri Apanocāṁtisiri ApaṇoOur restitution of no is supported by Apano in l. 6.bhagavatoThus Sarkar. The reading prima facie seemed extremely unlikely; we seemed rather to read sathamatā, but could not recognize a sense in this reading. Given the probability of parallelism with EIAD 28, we have decided to accept Sarkar’s reading.-mūle-mūliparināmetunaparinametunacātusālaparigahitaṁ selamaṁṭavacātusālaparigahitasa …We restore on the basis of the parallelism in EIAD 28.patiṭhapitaṁ raṁñosiri-patiṭhapitaṁ sirivirapurishadatasaWe restore on the basis of the parallelism in EIAD 28.

... Cāntisirī — ... sister of ... Vāsiṭṭhīputta ... favored by Mahāsena ... sacrificer of ... the Aśvamedha ... thousands ... and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters; ... of Kandasiri ... Great (General); ... mother of (Khandasāgaraṇṇaka) — for the increase of the (lifespan) and leading to victory after victory of her own ... (King) Māṭharīputta of the Ikṣvākus ... for the sake of ... happiness ... and nirvāṇa, at the base of the Great Shrine of the Bhagavant ... (consisting) of renunciants who come from various countries – having dedicated (the merit) to the past ... of her family on both sides and to nikapanīka ... established ... in the possession of ... a stone pavillion equipped with everything, enclosed by a quadrangular compound. In the 15th year of King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, in the 8th fortnight of the rainy season, on the ... day.

The text is parallel to EIAD 28. According to Sarkar, to this same group of fragments may also belong EIAD 38 (Vogel's M14), but we reject this hypothesis.

The alignment of fragments M10 with M5 by seems mistaken. We believe M10 needs to be moved down by 2 lines hence making it no longer attachable to M5, with as result a text rather closely reflecting that preserved in EIAD 28.

Fragments first described and edited individually by : 66-8 (M4, M5, M10, M16, M18), then pieced together by : 175-6 (v), who gives the first reconstruction of the inscription. Re-edited here after Sarkar's plate I.

: no. 18: no. Naga 40.1 (22, 23, 28, 34, 36): 107-8 (nos. 12A, 12B, 13, 13A).