Pillar from site 5 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 2 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00044

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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.

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 DHARMAbase EFEO EIAD 44 Nagarjunakonda Museum 300 Nagarjunakonda Museum 545

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 EIAD file transformed to follow the DHARMA encoding structure. Metadata extracted to be checked and updated according DHARMA workflow. Done through XSLT.
sidhaṁ namo bhagavato telokadhaṁmadhurāvahasa mahārājasa virūpakhapatimahāsenaparigahitasa AgihotaAgiṭhomavājapeyaAsamedhayayisa hiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāIsa savathesu Apatihatasaṁkapasa vāseṭhiputasa Ikhākunaṁ siricātamūlasa suṁnhāya mahārājasa māḍhariputasa Ikhākūnaṁ sirivīrapurisadatasa bhayaya mahārajasa siriEhuvuḷacātamūlasa mātuya mahādevīya bhaṭidevāya deyadhaṁma Imaṁ vihāro savajātaniyuto Acariyānaṁ bahusutīyānaṁ patiṭhāpito viko punaṁ budhiṁṇako raño saṁvacharaṁ bitiyaṁ gimhapaṁkha sughāya ti
virūpakha-virūpakha-AgihotaAgiAgihotāgi-vājapeyaAsamedhayayisa-vājapeyāsamedhayāyisaVogel suggests to emend -yājisa.sahasapadāIsaVogel suggests emending sahasapadāyisa.suṁnhāyasunhāyaIkhākūnaṁIkhākunaṁ-Ehuvuḷa-Ehuvuḷa-The akṣaras huvuḷa are damaged as the result of a a crack, but hu is still legible.mahādavīyamahādeviyadeyadhaṁma...Restoration after EIAD 46, l. 6.patiṭhāpitopatiṭhāpitoviko punaṁ budhiṁṇako... i ra pu naṁ budhiṇa ...The editor of the issue suggests reading virapunaṁbudhiṇa, as a proper name. Our reading budhiṁṇako is however supported by the occurrence of a similar name in EIAD 20, l. 2, for the husband of Bodhisirī. The first unclear akṣara could be either r or k. None of these combinations yields a known name or word.raño...saṁvacharaṁbitiyaṁsaṁvacharaṁ..bitiyaṁgimhapaṁkhagimhapakhaṁThe anusvāra appears to have been misplaced.

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the bearer of the burden of the Dharma for the three worlds.

The Great Queen Bhaṭidevā — daughter-in-law of Great King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Cāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, favored by Mahāsena who has Virūpākṣa as his lord, sacrificer of the Agnihotra, the Agniṣṭoma, the Vājapeya and the Aśvamedha, giver of tens of millions of (pieces of) gold, hundreds of thousands of cows and hundreds of thousands of plows (of land), whose will is unimpeded in all matters, wife of Great King Māṭharīputta Siri-Vīrapurisadatta of the Ikṣvākus, mother of Great King Siri-Ehuvuḷacāntamūla — established as pious gift this monastery, equipped with everything, for the Bahuśrutīya masters... again, Budhinnaka.

In the second year of the king, in the... fortnight of summer... for the happiness...

The text is largely parallel to that of EIAD 45 and 46.

The bottom of the top fragment has undergone considerable further damage here vis-à-vis the estampage published by Vogel.

sughāya tiThe date appears to have been followed by a benedictory formula such as sava-loka-hita-sukhāya.

First described and edited by : 3, 23–4 (G). Re-edited here from the published estampages and after autopsy of the stone.

: 61–2: 10–1: no. 38: no. Naga 44: 129–30 (no. 27)