# KnI 14. Lower drum slab from the Kanaganahalli stūpa — reign of
Māṭharīputta Siri-Puḷumāvi

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00014

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00014.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [namo bha](ga)gavato budhasa _ raño māḍhariputasa _ siripulumāvisa
(sa)[vachare] [5+] diva(s)[aṁ] 5 s(i)dakapavatakasa U(v)[āsakasa] ⟨2⟩
(de)vavāṇijaputasa _ hāgāṇa kaṇhasirisa _ samātukasa _ [sabhā](t)ukasa _
saputakasa dejadhama _ cetiyapaṭo _ sava(l)[okahitāya]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [bha](ga)vato ⬦ [bhaga]vato N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ māḍhariputasa • The mā is
engraved above a previously traced akṣara, such as a ka or more likely a
second ño written by dittography. — ⟨1⟩ diva(s)[aṁ] 5 ⬦ d(i)va (10) 5
N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ s(i)dakapavatakasa ⬦ s(ā)dakapavatakasa N&vH • The vocalic
marker of the first akṣara, although it is damaged, rather clearly
curves rightwards. Sidaka possibly stands for Skt. siddhaka, pointing to
a kind of tree. See Böhtlingk & Roth 1855–1875, s.v. — ⟨1⟩ U(v)[āsakasa]
⬦ (dhava) N&vH.

## Translation

Hommage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha! In the … year of King Māṭharīputta
Siri-Puḷumāvi, … on the 5th day. A slab with a⟨n engraved⟩ shrine: the
pious gift of Kaṇhasiri of the Hāga family, an upāsaka from Mount
Siddhaka, the son of the merchant -deva—together with his mother, his
brother⟨s⟩, his son⟨s⟩—for the well-being of the whole world.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in April 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. Pages 38–40, section I, item 14.

[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
469, item 150, plate CXLVII, item A & B, plate L, item A, plate XXVI,
item A.