# KnI 37. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00037

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00037.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⟩ (s)idha ∥ dhamakadhikasa _ nāgasi⟨ri⟩sa _ dejadhama _ sa[ha]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (s)idha ⬦ s(i)dham N&vH • who refer to a “rare virāma written as a
vertical stroke above the akṣara dha.” See also Nakanishi & von Hinüber
2014, p. 14. What looks like a (horizontal) stroke in the picture
reproduced by them is in fact a crack in the stone. — ⟨1⟩ sa[ha] •
Reconstructed on the basis of the exact parallel, KnI 38.

## Translation

Success! The pious gift of the expounder of the Dharma Nāgasiri,
together with …

## 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 18.

[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 206.