Kanheri Cave 3 Octagonal Column Graffiti Inscription

Editors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00011.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (b9370fa).

Edition

⟨1⟩ saṃvat 921 Asvi ⟨2⟩ na suddha 7 [1×][2+] ⟨3⟩ (ka) suta [1×] vata [2+] ⟨4⟩ [3+][1×] [2+]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ na suddha 7 [1×][2+][2+] na suddha 7 mi G.

⟨3⟩ (ka) suta [1×] vata [2+][2+] ka suta vata G.

⟨4⟩ [3+][1×] [2+] • Gokhale does not acknowledge this line, however its existence is clear on the eye-copy.

Translation

Commentary

Bibliography

Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.

Secondary

Alone, Y.S. 2022. “India's Deccan Upland: Historical and Cultural Geography of Western Indian Buddhist Caves.” Scientific Culture 8 (3), pp. 15–33. Page 19.