# KnI 35. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00035

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00035.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ therāna (bha)yatamah(ā)rakhitā(naṁ) At(e)vāsi(niya
A)laka(n)(ha)(kici)[ya] (U)t(iy)[āya] [mahāce](tiy)[e] (d)[e](ya)dha(ma)
[dā]na

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ therāna ⬦ [2+]ra therāna N&vH • I see no ra, nor indeed any akṣara
before therāna, which could well mark the beginning of the record, as in
KnI0034. — ⟨1⟩ (bha)yatamah(ā)rakhitā(naṁ) ⬦ bhayata maharakhitāna N&vH.
— ⟨1⟩ At(e)vāsi(niya) ⬦ At[e]vāsin[1+] N&vH. — ⟨1⟩
(A)laka(n)(ha)(kici)[ya] ⬦ [2+]gha[4+] N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ (U)t(iy)[āya] ⬦
[1+]tara[2+] N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ [mahāce](tiy)[e] ⬦ [2+]ṇa[2+] N&vH. — ⟨1⟩
(d)[e](ya)dha(ma) ⬦ [de](ya)dha[ma] N&vH.

## Translation

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

## 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 50, section II.2, item 16.

[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.