Kanheri Cave 81 Right Wall Inscription

Editors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00045.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (5d26814).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [15+]sa sethisa ⟨2⟩ (ra)[11+](p)usamitasa ⟨3⟩ (hu)[12+] [1×] nekamasa ga⟨4⟩hapati[sa] [10+] sa leṇaṁ pā⟨5⟩(ṇiya)[poḍhi ca][19+][1×] deyadhama ⟨6⟩(tu)[dise bhikhusaṁghe patiṭhāpita mātā]pitaro Udi⟨7⟩sa (ma) [2×] [8+] mato sasu ⟨8⟩ (la ta s)[.][2×] ta t(e)su [4+](pa)[1×](ce) dāto

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [15+]sa sethisa ⬦ [5+]sa sethisa G.

⟨2⟩ (ra)[11+]mi[5+] G.

⟨3⟩ (hu)[12+] [1×] nekamasa ga ⬦ [5+][1×] nekamasa ga G. — ⟨3⟩ ga⟨4⟩hapati[sa] [10+]sa leṇaṁ ⬦ gahapati [5+] leṇaṁ G.

⟨4⟩⟨5⟩(ṇiya)[poḍhi ca][19+][1×] deyadhama ⬦ po[ḍhi][6+] deyadhama G.

⟨6⟩(tu)[dise bhikhusaṁghe patiṭhāpita mātā]pitaro Udi ⬦ [6+][mātā]pitaro Udisa G.

⟨7⟩ sa (ma)[2×][8+] mato sasu ⬦ [6+]ta[6+]sasa G.

⟨8⟩ (la ta s)[.][2×] ta t(e)su [4+](pa)[1×](ce) dāto ⬦ [4+] rata[4+]po[ḍhi] ca dinā G.

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Commentary

Bibliography

Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 52, item 6.

Secondary

Strauch, Ingo. 2021. “Money for rituals: akṣayanīvī and related inscriptions from Āndhradeśa.” In: Power, presence and space: South Asian rituals in archaeological context. Edited by Henry Albery, Jens-Uwe Hartmann and Himanshu Prabha Ray. Archaeology and Religion in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 193–214. Page 206.