Kanheri Detached Rock Opposite Cave 41 Inscription

Editors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00032.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (8d5f7b8).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)[o](para)(ka)sa [2×][1+][ga]⟨2⟩[ha]patisa sethisa (p)u[1+]⟨3⟩ṇakasa talāke deyadhaṃma

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (s)[o](para)(ka)sa [2×][1+][ga][5×] G; [10×] Tsk.

⟨2⟩ [ha]patisa sethisa (p)u [1+]patisa sethisa pu G; patisa sethisa pu Tsk.

Translation

A tank/pond: the meritorious gift of (P)u[1+]ṇaka, a seṭhi and householder of Sopāra….

Commentary

Bibliography

Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 84, item 32.

[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. Page 435, item III Kanh 32.

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]. Page 19.

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 114.

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 30.