Kanheri Cave 7 Second Cistern Inscription

Author of digital edition: Kelsey Martini (kema).

Contributors: Kelsey Martini (kema), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Script (other) (script_other)].

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00018.

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSKI00018.xml.

Version: 2026-08-16 19:50 (8c6fcee), last modified 2026-07-17 15:36 (581605e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ cemulakasa heraṇikasa

⟨2⟩ rohiṇimitasa putasa

⟨3⟩ sūlasadatasa poḍhi

⟨4⟩ deyadhaṁma 卍

Translation

A cistern: the meritorious gift of Sulasadatta, the son of Rohiṇimitta, a minter of Cemulla.

Commentary

A gift by another son of Rohiṇimitta is recorded in KI00020

Cemulla, well attested in our corpus, is identified by both B+B and G as modern Chaul, in the Raigan district, approximately 90km south of Kanheri.

Bibliography

Primary

[B&B] Burgess, James & Georg Bühler. 1883. Report on the Elura cave temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in Western India: Completing the results of the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons’ operations of the Archaeological survey, 1877–78, 1878–79, 1879–80. Vol. 5. Archaeological Survey of Western India. London: Trübner & Co. Page 78, item 13.

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 66, item 18.

Secondary

Naik, A. V. 1948. “Inscriptions of the Deccan: an epigraphical survey (Circa 300 B.C.-1300 A.D.)” BDCRI 9 (1/2), pp. 1–160. [URL]. Pages 4, 19, 21, 23, 26.

Hettiarachchy, Jayadevanandasara. 1973. “Buddhism in the Northern Deccan under the Śātavāhana Rulers (c. 30 B.C. - 225 A.D.)” Doctoral Thesis, University of London. London. Pages 114, 192–193.

Neelis, Jason. 2010–11–19. “Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia.” In: Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks. Leiden: Brill. [URL]. Page 25 n. 75.

Joshi, Reena. 2020. “A Study of Hydro Resource Management at Early Historic Site of Kanheri, Maharashtra: An Engineering Perspective.” Internation E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences VI (16), pp. 340–348. Page 346.

Ghosh, Suchandra. 2023. “Interrogating ’Heraṇika’ in the Inscriptions of the Western Deccan (c. 200 BC-300 AD).” In: Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday (eds. Helen Wang and Robert Bracey. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 174–176. Page 175.

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