Pillar from site 17 at Nagarjunakonda — reign of Siri-Ehavalacāntamūla author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00060

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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.

Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa DHARMA_INSEIAD00060

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ca tethikana kā lasa ca bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa Āgaṁtukavathavehi bhuṁjitavasa Akhayanivikā datā gāmaṁ pa haṁ kakolūraṁ nelācavasaṁ ya ca Aparama sa ca Akhayanivi dīnārimāsakā divaḍhaṁ sataṁ supayutaṁ Esā ca Akhayanivī kulīkapamukhāyaṁ Anutheya citi yaṁ i
ca tethikana kā ca tethikana ........... na kāThe passage seems parallel to EIAD 56, l. 7 tethikanakhatikāpahāraḍhikā and 139, l. 3-4 tethikanakkhattikāpahārakādi. One could read ? tikā after the gap between two fragments, but supplying a single syllable kha in the gap does not seem sufficient to fill it.bhaḍaphulasaṁṭhapasa Āgaṁtukavathavehibhadaphula saṭhapa samagandakavathavakiCf. EIAD 105, l. 10: bhadaphulasaṁṭhapasa.gāmaṁ pagāmapadīnārimāsakādīnārimāsakānaṁBut cf. EIAD 10, l. 6.sataṁ sataṁ bhaAkhayanivīAkhayanivikulīka-kulika-Anutheya citi yaṁ iAtatheya ci … yaṁ hiThe last akṣara is presumably ti.
... (for) the taithika, the nā(kṣatrika ?), and for the repair of what was damaged and dilapidated; it should be enjoyed by those who (will) arrive and who (presently) reside. As permanent endowment, the village(s) of ... Kakolūra (and) Nelācavasa ... and aparama... ... a permanent endowment, (consisting in) one and a half hundred of dīnārimāṣakas, is firmly attributed to (...). And this permanent endowment is to be executed by (...) headed by the kulikas ...

On the uncertain referent of kulika, a figure that maybe connected to the śreṣṭhin, see : 165.

: 210–1 sees in Aparama a mention of the Aparamahāvinaseliyas. While it is at first sights tempting to follow him and reconstruct accordingly, both the rest of the text and the findspot of the inscription point to a non-Buddhist context, where the mention of a Buddhist school would be unexpected. We are therefore unable to accept Sircar’s idea.

First described and edited by : 43–4 and then in : 210–1 (III). Re-edited here from published documentation and after autopsy of the stone covering the lower part of the inscription.

1954–55: 231954–55: 13, no. B.7: 70: no. Naga 51: 158 (no. 42): 178