Pillar from site 5 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 2 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00046

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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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siddham· .namo bhagavato buddhasa mahārājasa virūpakkhapattimahāsenaparigahitasa Agihotāgiṭhomavājapeyasamedhayājisa Anekahiraṁṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyisa savathesu Apatihatasaṁkappasa vāsiṭhīputtasa Ikkhākūnaṁ siricaṁtamulasa sunhāya mahārajasa māṭharīputtasa sirivīrapurisadattasa bhayyāya mahādevīya bhaṭṭidevāya deyadhaṁma Imaṁ savajātaniyuto vihāro Acariyānaṁ bahusutiyānaṁ patiṭṭhapito raṁño vāsiṭhīputtasa Ikkhākūnaṁ siriEhuvulacatamūlasa saṁvacharaṁ bitiyaṁ gimhapakkhaṁ chaṭhaṁ 6divasaṁ dasamaṁ 10.
virūpakkhapati-virūpakkhapatti-AgihotāgiṭhomavājapeyasamedhayājisaAgihotāgiṭhomavājapeyāsamedhayājisaIkkhākūnaṁIkkhākunaṁBoth reconstructions are possible, but ours is supported internally (l. 7). -dattasa-dattasabhaṭṭidevāyabhaṭṭidevāyaVogel's readinh does not distinguish clearly between damaged and reconstructed akṣaras.raṁñoraño

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha.

The 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 numerous 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 — established as pious gift this Queen’s monastery, equipped with everything, for the Bahuśrutīya masters.

In the second year of king Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Ehuvulacāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, in the sixth fortnight of summer, on the tenth day.

: 62 remarks that the inscription is remarkable ‘because the method of spelling shows an attempt at greater accuracy than is the case in the other inscriptions. Double consonants are indicated in several instances (putta, saṃkappasa, Purisadattasa, bhayyāya, Bhaṭṭidevāya) and even in °patti where the doubling of the consonant is wrong. In the same way, we find a ligature in Virūpakkha, patiṭṭhapito, Ikkhākunaṁ, pakkhaṁ. This practice, however, is not universally followed; we find a single consonant in agiṭhoma, savathesu, saṁvaccharaṁ [sic], and in the genitive ending -sa.’

First described and edited by : 62 (G2). Edited again, from the EI estampage, by : 299 and : 238-9. Re-edited here after autopsy of the stone.

: no. 36: no. Naga 42: 133-4 (no. 29): 163, 166