# KnI 34. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier and Robert Arlt

Authors of digital edition: Vincent Tournier, Robert Arlt

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00034

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00034.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ therāna bhayatamahārakhitāna Atevāsiniya (A)la(ka)nha(k)iciya
(U)t(i)yāya mahācetiye d(e)yadhama

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ therāna bhayatamahārakhitāna ⬦ (the)[rāna] [bha](yata
ma)hā(rakhitāna) N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ Atevāsiniya ⬦ Atevāsinā[1+] N&vH. — ⟨1⟩
(A)la(ka)nha(k)iciya ⬦ [4+]kācaya N&vH • -kici may be here feminine form
for -kica, a term attested in composition with what appear to be
toponyms in the Amaravati corpus. See EIAD 278, l. 1: … [ca]dakicasa
gahapatisa kanhatiputasa …; EIAD 312, l. 1-2: chadākicasa sethipamukhasa
bhadanigamasa; EIAD 350, l. 1: …tulakicasa gahapatisa kubulasa putasa ….
Lüders 1912, p. 179, № 1205a renders the latter compound as “inhabitant
of Tulaka”. — ⟨1⟩ (U)t(i)yāya ⬦ [2+]taya[2+] N&vH.

## Translation

The pious gift to the Great Shrine of Uttiyā, the inhabitant of Alakaṇha
(?), a pupil of the venerable reverend Mahārakkhita.

## Commentary

Although not recognised by Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, this
inscription very probably corresponds to Poonacha 2011, № 222.

## 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 49–50, section II.2, item 15.

[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. Item
222.