Buddha image author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00043

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 2019-2025 Buddha image 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_INSEIAD00043

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

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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).

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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.
mahasenapati sūkacata sacabhaiya Elirya
baṁdhuvagaṁ kaṁṇasiriputo Eli
Elicato vairamaḍuvai budhapaṭima thāvitaṁ
sacabhaiyaThe reading ca (which we initially read va) is quite curious, and might need to be revised. Likewise, the akṣara we read as bhai does not have a regular shape, and the serif seems very faint. It could also be read as gai.EliryaOur first reading of the vocalic marker attached to the ra was -e. However, if we take into consideration the fact that the visible element might not be the upper part of the ra, it is also possible to interpret it as a ri. There is also what remains of a vocalic mark on the preceding akṣara, which could as well be interpreted as an -i. Therefore, in light of the parallel with EIAD 51, l. 11, reading mahādeviya kodaElisiriya, it is possible to suggest a reconstruction Elisiriya.

The Great General Sūkacata sacabhaiya Eli…

The group of relatives, Eli…, son of Kaṇṇasirī...

Elicata established (this) Buddha image at Vairamaḍuva.

In EIAD 29 we have interpreted vaira as vajira; maḍuva could here stand for maṇḍapa.

Previously unpublished; edited here from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.