# EIAD 112. Stone chattra from Phanigiri

Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSEIAD00112

Repository: Early Āndhradeśa (tfb-eiad-epigraphy)

File path: texts/xml/DHARMA_INSEIAD00112.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-22 13:22 (151ff65), last modified 2026-09-21 18:13
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ k(ā)namūḷayāna [ca. 20+]ta _Utaravaḍhamāne _

## Translation

Of Kānamūḷaya, (...), in the northern estate.

## Commentary

⟨1⟩ [ca. 20+][1]

⟨1⟩ k(ā)namūḷayāna[2]

## Bibliography

Previously unpublished; edited here after autopsy of the stone.

[1] Since about half of the chattra is missing, we expect a lacuna of
around 20 akṣaras between the na and the ta.

[2] Considering the size of the chattra, the stūpa which it crowned must
have been typologically very similar to funerary stūpas enshrining the
remains of local monks at other sites. In inscriptions on such stūpas or
chattras, as shown by Schopen 1991, the deceased monk is commonly
referred to in the genitive plural as a mark of respect for the
deceased.