Slab with Buddha image in high relief said to be from Ghantasala

Slab with Buddha image in high relief said to be from Ghantasala EpiDoc Encoding Arlo Griffiths intellectual authorship of edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00131

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Lettering typical of the 2nd century CE.

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dhaṁmakatikaya parabudhayāya Atevāsikāya culāya paṭimā

Image gifted by Cullā, female pupil of the dharma reciter Parabudhāyā.

This is a rare inscription where the senior figure, to whom is attached a female donor as pupil (antevāsinī), is herself female. Indeed, the use of the feminine dhammakathikā is unique in our corpus. See also EIAD 255 and EIAD 334; in the second case, the senior figure is marked as the donor’s preceptor (uvajjhāyinī), but she is herself a disciple of a senior monk.

First described and edited in a Japanese newspaper called Bukkyo times by Akira Sadakata, whose reading is cited (but without any diacritics or editorial apparatus) in . This digital edition by Arlo Griffiths & Vincent Tournier from our photographs and after autopsy of the stone.

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