# KnI 38. Pupphagahani fragments from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00038

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00038.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⟩ dhamakadhikasa _ nāgas(i)r[i]sa _ (de)[ja](dha)ma _ saha (bhā)[t]unā
_ nāgabudhinā

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (de)[ja](dha)ma ⬦ (d)[eja](dhama) N&vH • What the previous editors
take as a daṇḍa is probably just an accident of engraving.

## Translation

Success! The pious gift of the expounder of the Dharma Nāgasiri,
together with his brother Nāgabuddhi.

## Commentary

Misidentified with Poonacha 2011, № 199 in Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014.

## 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 50–51, section II.2, item 19.