Memorial pillar from site 56 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00057

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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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raño siri Ehavalacāṁtamūlasa sa hepa diva Arakabhaṁḍarakasa i ve rakhadhikatasa koṁḍa chā khaṁ
raño....akaThe editor noted: The intended word may be arako (Sanskrit āryaka). Even if this is accepted, we can scarcely connect this epithet with the name of the Aira family (cf. above Vol. XXXII [= ], p. 85, note 3): 13 n. 7. It seems to us more likely that the intended word was in fact raño, even if the ñ would then be poorly realized.cāṁtamūlasacaṁtamulasasaWhat remains, in the poor estampage, might be tentatively restored as saṁvachara followed by a number. Sircar suggests restoring sava, followed by a number.hepahemadiva diva 10Sircar’s reading is unlikely, although we do not have an alternative reading to suggest. ArakabhaṁḍarakasaArakabhaḍarakasai veyatisamaṇa-koṁḍa koḍarakasachākhaṁchāya-khaṁbho |
In the ... year of King Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla ... fortnight of winter, ... day. The memorial pillar of Koṇḍa..., treasurer of the noble ones (?), borne on the shoulders by...

Sircar assumes bhaṭṭāraka, but an association with bhaṇḍāra and cognate forms with the meaning “treasurer, officer in charge of the treasury” seems more probable due to the clearly visible anusvāra above the akṣara bha.

For khaṁdhikata (Sanskrit skandhīkr̥ta), “borne on the shoulder”, see : 13. We are unable to confirm the reading of the preceding akṣaras suggested by Sircar (yati-samaṇa).

First edited by : 13 (5). Re-edited here from the estampage published by Sircar.

1959-60: B.90: no. 47: 204: 155 (no. 39) = 160 (no. 44)