Maṇḍapa pillar from site 12 at Nagarjunakonda author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00069

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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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sa datasa saṁvacharaṁ gīmhapakhaṁ bitiyaṁ divasaṁ paḍhamaṁ 1siripavate vijayapuriya puvadisābhāge vihāre culadhaṁmagiriyaṁ Acaṁtarājācariyānaṁ sakasamayaparasamayasu-
sa….gīmhapakhaṁgimhapakhaṁsiripavatesiripavatesakasamayaparasamayasu-sakasamayaparasamayasa

In year ? of ...data ..., in the second fortnight of summer, on the first — 1st — day. In Siripavvata (Śrīparvata), in the monastery on the Culadhamma hill in the eastern part of Vijayapurī, to the supreme teachers of kings, (who distinguish?) well (between?) their own standpoint (samaya) and the standpoint of others …

The inscription abruptly ends at the end of l. 6 and the other two sides of the pillar (the fourth side is hollowed and stood against a wall) do not contain any inscribed text.

Acaṁtarājā-See our note on this word under EIAD 20, l. 1.

sakasamayaparasamaya-: 212, who reads sakasamayaparasamayasa- suggests to reconstruct -samyakpāraga-, which is unlikely. He also did not identify literary parallels to this expression. Our understanding of this pair of notions is informed by the passage shared by Visuddhimagga 522 and Vibhaṅga-aṭṭakathā 130, and discussed in : 170f. For a lenghtier discussion, see : 59, n. 107, who argues this series of titles point to Theriya-Vibhajjavādins monks.

First edited by : 211-2 (IV). Re-edited here from the available documentation and after autopsy of the stone.

1954-55: B.101954-55: 22: 45-5: no. 25: 168-9 (51): 172: 59