# KnI 30. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00030

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00030.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⟩ dhañakaḍakasa har[i]pusasa paṭa(ṁ) dānaṁ

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ har[i]pusasa ⬦ harapusasa N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ paṭa(ṁ) dānaṁ ⬦ paṭadāna N&vH.

## Translation

A ⟨pupphagahani⟩ slab: the gift of Haripussa from Dhaññakaḍa.

## Commentary

Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, p. 48, note: “Here either the puphagahani
is referred to as paṭa “slab,” or, more likely, if inscriptions II.2,9
(=KnI 28) and II.2,10 (=KnI 29) are compared, the puphagahani and the
accompanying slab seem to be the object of donation.” KnI 29 in fact
reads (p)uphagahani dānaṁ and not (p)uphagahapa[ṭa]. Moreover, KnI 61
refers to the dedicated object as puphapaṭo, which does in fact support
that pupphagahanis are sometimes more losely refer to as “slabs”. I have
thus translated accordingly.

## 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. Page 48, section II.2, item 11.

[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
474, item 217.