Kanheri Epitaph Inscription 23

Editors: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKI00073.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (e5ac0e5).

Edition

⟨1⟩ therāṇaṃ Ayyasivaṇā⟨2⟩gāṇaṃ Araha[ṃ]tāṇaṃ ⟨3⟩ [cha]labhi(ñā)ṇaṃ [thūbhaṃ]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ayyasivaṇā⟨2⟩gāṇaṃ ⬦ Āyyasivanāgānaṁ G.

⟨2⟩ Araha[ṃ]tāṇaṃ ⬦ Arahantāṇaṃ G.

⟨3⟩ [cha]labhi(ñā)ṇaṃ [thūbhaṃ][cha]labhi(ña)ṇaṃ [thūbhaṃ] G.

Translation

Stūpa of the three hundred arhats, [accomplished] meditators, [headed by?] the venerable Khemaṃkara.

Commentary

(2) tiṇhaṃ This is the Gen. Pl. of the numeral three, see KI00075, l. 1: pañcaṇha(ṃ) and references provided there.

Bibliography

Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 132, item E23.