# KnI 13. Āyāga frieze from the Kanaganahalli stūpa — Vāsiṭṭhīputta
Siri-Sātakaṇṇi, year 11

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00013

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00013.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-17 05:18
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ (si)dha namo bhagavato _ raño vāsiṭhiputasa _ sirisātakanisa sava 10
1 vāpa 1 di 1 pavaItasa kanhasirisa bhātuṇo _ saghakasa deyadha(ma)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sirisātakanisa ⬦ saḍasatakanisa N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ pavaItasa ⬦ pavabātasa
N&vH • Noting “Although the reading pavabātasa kanhasir[i]sa is beyond
doubt, this is certainly an error for pavayitasa, silently corrected in
MASI, once the inscription III.2,1 [= KnI0146] is compared.” (Nakanishi
& von Hinüber 2014, p. 38)

## Translation

Success! Hommage to the Bhagavant! In the 11th year of King
Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Sātakaṇṇi, on the 1st fortnight of the rainy season,
on the 1th day. The pious gift of Saṅghaka, the brother of the
renunciant Kaṇhasiri.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in May 2025.

### Primary

[N&vH] Nakanishi, Maiko & Oskar von Hinüber. 2014. Kanaganahalli
inscriptions. Annual report of the International Research Institute for
Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 2013, Vol.
17, Supplement. Tokyo: International Research Institute for Advanced
Buddhology, Soka University. Page 38, section I, item 13.

[MASI] Poonacha, K. P. 2011. Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati),
taluk Chitapur, dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka. Memoirs of the Archaeological
Survey of India 106. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page
457, item 68, plate CXXXVI, item 1, plate CXLV.