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Marble sculptural frieze. Jaggayyapeta stupa. Andhra, 1st C. BCE. H. 4'3". Government Museum, Madras
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Clik here to view.Chakravartin from Jaggayyapeta Stupa. Sculptural frieze from Amaravati. Guimet Museum
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= a branch; a twig; a twig with leaves on it (Telugu) Rebus:
= warehouse, workshop (Konkani) Thus, the standing person is a worker with a smelter and manager of a warehouse, workshop. Such a leader is called guild-master: *śrēṣṭrī1 ʻ clinger ʼ. [√śriṣ 1 ]Phal. šē̃ṣṭrĭ̄ ʻ flying squirrel ʼ?(CDIAL 12723) Rebus: guild master: Pk. sēḍhĭ̄ -- f. ʻ line, row ʼ (cf. pasēḍhi -- f. ʻ id. ʼ. -- < EMIA. *sēṭhī -- sanskritized as śrēḍhī -- , śrēṭī -- , śrēḍī<-> (Col.), śrēdhī -- (W.) f. ʻ a partic. progression of arithmetical figures ʼ); K. hēr, dat. °ri f. ʻ ladder ʼ.(CDIAL 12724) Rebus: śrḗṣṭha ʻ most splendid, best ʼ RV. [śrīˊ -- ]Pa. seṭṭha -- ʻ best ʼ, Aś.shah. man. sreṭha -- , gir. sesṭa -- , kāl. seṭha -- , Dhp. śeṭha -- , Pk. seṭṭha -- , siṭṭha -- ; N. seṭh ʻ great, noble, superior ʼ; Or. seṭha ʻ chief, principal ʼ; Si. seṭa, °ṭu ʻ noble, excellent ʼ. śrēṣṭhin m. ʻ distinguished man ʼ AitBr., ʻ foreman of a guild ʼ, °nī -- f. ʻ his wife ʼ Hariv. [śrḗṣṭha -- ]Pa. seṭṭhin -- m. ʻ guild -- master ʼ, Dhp. śeṭhi, Pk. seṭṭhi -- , siṭṭhi -- m., °iṇī -- f.; S. seṭhi m. ʻ wholesale merchant ʼ; P. seṭh m. ʻ head of a guild, banker ʼ, seṭhaṇ, °ṇī f.; Ku.gng. śēṭh ʻ rich man ʼ; N. seṭh ʻ banker ʼ; B. seṭh ʻ head of a guild, merchant ʼ; Or. seṭhi ʻ caste of washermen ʼ; Bhoj. Aw.lakh. sēṭhi ʻ merchant, banker ʼ, H. seṭh m., °ṭhan f.; G. śeṭh, śeṭhiyɔ m. ʻ wholesale merchant, employer, master ʼ; M. śeṭh, °ṭhī, śeṭ, °ṭī m. ʻ respectful term for banker or merchant ʼ; Si. siṭu, hi° ʻ banker, nobleman ʼ H. Smith JA 1950, 208 (or < śiṣṭá -- 2 ?)(CDIAL 12725, 12726)
What do the flanking horse and elephant signify?
Elephant: karibha, ibha 'elephant' rebus: karba, ib 'iron' Horse: sadassa 'a noble steed of the horse kind' (Pali) sadom 'horse' rebus: sadana 'seat, dwelling'.
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Pedestal of Tukulti-Ninurta I shows Ningirsu writing tablet and stylus and Indus Script hieroglyphs nave-of-wheel, safflower https://tinyurl.com/y6zqc397
Comparable to the Tukulti Ninurta I pedestal are the hieroglyphs of Jaggayyapeta/Amaravati. A spoked wheel is shown as a capitol of a pillar. An ox-hide type ingot is also shown as a capitol of a pillar.Thus, reinforcing the association of these hypertexts with metalwork and work of a guild-master.Image may be NSFW.
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One side of Tukulti Ninurta I pedestal (fire-altar) signifying spoked wheels atop flagposts and atop the heads of two flagpost carriers. Do these signify working with arā 'spokes' rebus: āra 'brass'?
Jaggayyapeta/Amaravati and Tukulti Ninurta sculptural friezes are clearly proclamations of metalwork competence.
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Marble sculptural frieze. Jaggayyapeta stupa. Andhra, 1st C. BCE. H. 4'3". Government Museum, Madras
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Identical narratives in Jaggayyapeta and Amaravati sculptural friezes are NOT of Aśoka cakravarti but of a फडनीस guild-master of Amaravati mint https://tinyurl.com/y7dyax2a
Art historians and scholars of civilization studies have interpreted Jaggayyapeta sculptural frieze (of marble in Govt. Museum, Egmore) as a depiction of Aśoka cakravarti because of the signifier of a spoked-wheel atop a pillar and because the person with an upraised arm is flanked by a horse and an elephant which are two of the 14 .
I submit, comparing the frieze with an identical narrative on an Amaravati sculptural frieze (in Guimet Museum, Paris), that the depiction is NOT of Aśoka cakravarti but of a guild-master of a mint in Amaravati.
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Left: Marble sculptural frieze. Jaggayyapeta stupa. Andhra, 1st C. BCE. H. 4'3". Government Museum, Madras
Right: Sculptural frieze from Amaravati. Guimet Museum
Two pillars with capitals flank the standing person.
The pillar on the left has the capital of a spoked wheel and on the base of this pillar, square coins are shown. To the right of this pillar is a parasol:Ta. kuṭai umbrella, parasol, canopy. Ma. kuṭa umbrella. Ko. koṛ umbrella made of leaves (only in a proverb); keṛ umbrella. To. kwaṛ id. Ka. koḍe id., parasol. Koḍ. koḍe umbrella.
Tu. koḍè id. Te. goḍugu id., parasol. Kuwi (F.) gūṛgū, (S.) gudugu, (Su. P.) guṛgu umbrella (< Te.). / Cf. Skt. (lex.) utkūṭa- umbrella, parasol.(DEDR 1663) Rebus: koD 'workshop, smithy'.
Read together, the spoked-wheel and the umbrella signify rebus Meluhha expressions of metalwork: ārakuta, 'brass' composed of hieroglyphs: arā 'spoke' rebus: āra 'brass' kūṭa'.
The second pillar on the right has the capital of an ox-hide shaped ingot which is read rebus: ḍhālako ‘large ingot’. खोट [khōṭa] ‘ingot, wedge’; A mass of metal (unwrought or of old metal melted down)(Marathi) khoṭ f ʻalloy (Lahnda) Thus the pair of ligatured oval glyphs read: khoṭ ḍhālako ‘alloy ingots’
Thus, the two capital pillars and the parasol signify ārakuta 'brass' and khoṭ ḍhālako ‘alloy ingots’.
The upraised arm of the standing person is: eraka 'upraised arm' rebus: eraka 'moltencast'. This is signifier of a caster of molten metal. He is an important person wearing a twig on his crown: kūdī 'twig' kuṭhi 'smelter' Vikalpa:
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Thus, together, the elephant and horse signify, karba sadana 'iron workplace'.