Pillar from site 9 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla, year 8 author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00047

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putasa mahārājasa sirivīrapurisadatasa putasa raño vāseṭhiputasa Ikhākunaṁ siriEhuvuḷacātamūlasa savachara Aṭhama gimhapakha cavutha divasa padarasa siripavate vijayapure Aparamahāvinaseliyānāṁ mahānigāye seṭhivaravaḍhamāne cātudiṇisīkasa Ariyasaṁghasa selamaḍavaṁ paḍiṭhapeti bharanakalaṁ nivana cana budhadhaṁmasaṁghamaṁgalo nagaravaragīrivaranegamabahudeyadhaṁmakārako Upāsako caṁdasirī ca nāgasirī ca piyabhātukā raṁño Āyuvadhanik Apana mātāpituno pūja putabhariyañātimittasāla gaṁ puñaṁ dānā Apanā ji mana sukhathanāya
mahārājasa sirivīrapurisadatasasirivīrapurasadatasaSircar notes: The damaged aksharas appear to be sidhaṁ raño: 8, n. 3. However, judging from the parallel EIAD 48, two lines seem to be missing above this.EhuvuḷacātamūlasaEhuvuḷacāntamūlasaaṭhamaWe follow here the restoration suggested by , on the basis of the comparison with the closely related EIAD 48. However, the restoration satama can not be excluded, and the apparent absence of akṣaras before ma at the beginning of l. 4 is surprising.cavuthacavuṭhapadarasaThus also . Cf. EIAD 48, l. 6, where the reading of this word is alas problematic.-yānāṁ-yānāseṭhivaravaḍhamāneThere is enough space for one or two more akṣara after the break, but the parallel from EIAD 48 does not have anything before the word cātudisikasa.cātudiṇisīkasa…sikasaSircar notes : The damaged aksharas at the beginning of the line look like a initial Udini°: 9, n. 1. The parallel text from EIAD 48, l. 9 is also damaged but can be read cātudisikasa. We therefore expect that cātudisikasa was intended also here.maḍavaṁḍavapaḍiṭhapetipadiṭhapetibharanakalaṁbharasalaṁThe shape of the ra is curious, but we take the mark before it as an accident of the stone. Sircar notes: The intended reading (for bhara-) seems to be bhaḍāra- or bhaṁḍāra-; the lost aksharas are -ya niṭha-: 9, n. 3. canaveti-saṁghamaṁgalosaṁghamagalanagaravara… varaBut suggests restoring nagara.-dhaṁmakārako-dhamakārakaThere is no trace of an akṣara after this word, and in the light of the parallel in EIAD 48 we don’t expect anything before upāsako. This implies that l. 11 was shorter than l. 10, and especially much shorter than ll. 12-14. The last words of these lines were apparently written on the lateral face of the pillar, whose front face narrows in its center.Upāsako caṁdasirīUphāsako cadasirīWith correction of phā to pā.nāgasirī canāgasiripiyabhātukā raṁñopiyabhātuko rañoEIAD 48, l. 13, also preserves what might be read as a ko. Emend accordingly.ĀyuvadhanikĀyuvadhanikeputabhariyañātimittasāla… riyake nimitta sālā suggests a reconstruction pūjā bhariyake.gaṁ puñaṁdānāApanā ji…purato kārāpitā…Compare EIAD 48, l. 16. We tentatively suppose that dātā, to be understood as dataṁ, was intended here as well.mana- mane

In the (eighth) year of King Vāsithīputa (Siri-)Ehuvulacāntamūla of the Ikṣvākus, (son) of Great King Siri-Vīrapurisadatta, son of…, in the fourth fortnight of summer, on the fifteenth day.

In Siripavvata, at Vijayapura, for the great school of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas, in the estate of the excellent Guild’s Chief, the lay follower Candasiri, honoring the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha, the bestower of many pious gifts at excellent cities, mountains and market-places, and (his) beloved brother Nāgasiri, established a stone maṇḍapa for the noble community of the four directions... bharanakala ... (for the) increase of the life-span of the king, in homage to his parents, he gave (the first?) share of the merit to his son(s), wife, relatives, friends, and brother(s)-in-law. (This is also) for his own happiness ...

budhadhaṁmasaṁghamaṁgaloLiterally, ‘for whom the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha are auspicious’. The expression is rare, as far as we know, but it occurs in the Mahāvastu, within the Abhiyavastu, as an epithet of Uttiya. Cf. Mahāvastu (ed. ) I 36: śraddhāprasanno buddhadharmasaṁghamaṅgalo nandādīnāṁ bhikṣūṇām abhiprasanno.

cātudiṇisīkasaThis probably stands for cātudisikasa, being part of the formula of the universal community.

First described and edited by : 7-9 (2.A). Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

1938-39: 71, no. B.452; 1945-46: no. B.1951959-60: no. B.100no. 39no. Naga 53: 135-7, no. 30