Kanheri Excavation 7A Backwall Inscription
Editors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00019.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).
Version: (0a2f922), last modified (eb708d7).
Edition
⟨1⟩ [8+] [ṇa] [2+] [1×] [2+] sasa bhaya [1×] ma ⟨2⟩ [7+] (p)[.] [1+] gāme gorapa[1×](kake)su bāṁṇa pati
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ [8+] [ṇa] [2+] [1×] [2+] sasa bhaya [1×] ma ⬦ [3+]bhayata sama G; [9+]bhayata sama Tsk • The reading bhayata is possible (although the eye copy rather looks like bhayava), however there are only four akṣaras (not five) in this sequence.
⟨2⟩ [7+] (p)[.] [1+] gāme gorap[1×](kake)su bāṁṇa pati ⬦ [3+] na pati (deya)dhama G; [9+] na pati (deya)dhama Tsk • Gokhale notes that “West has recorded the letters gami gorapa (present =Gorad)”, however she still does not count the missing akṣaras correctly. The deyadhama is from a phantom third line that Gokhale likely fabricated to “make sense” of the inscription. See Martini 2023.
Translation
Bibliography
Primary
[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.
[Tsk] Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥. 1996, 1998, 2003. Indo Bukkyō himei no kenkyū インド仏教碑銘の研究 (A comprehensive study of the Indian Buddhist inscriptions). 3 vols. Kyōto-shi 京都市: Heirakuji Shoten 平楽寺書店.
Secondary
Naik, A. V. 1948. “Inscriptions of the Deccan: an epigraphical survey (Circa 300 B.C.-1300 A.D.)” Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute 9 (1/2), pp. 1–160. [URL]. Page 20.
Martini, Kelsey. 2023. “Early Indian administrative documents (ca. 2nd c. BCE - 3rd c. CE): Problematic ancient inscriptions in light of book two of the Kauṭilya Arthaśāstra.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Munich. Pages 134–136.
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<p>The count of the missing akṣaras at the beginning of each line is only an approximation.
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Commentary
The count of the missing akṣaras at the beginning of each line is only an approximation.