# KnI 39. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00039

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00039.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⟩ dhamakadhika(sa) Ayakanha[…]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ayakanha ⬦ (Aya)[sa] (kanha) N&vH.

## Translation

… of the Noble Kaṇha-, expounder of the Dharma …

## Commentary

This inscription is edited twice by Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, as
II.2,20 and II.2,21. It corresponds to Poonacha 2011, № 223.The break on
the stone under the akṣara ka, visible in both pictures published by the
editors make it rather clear it is a same stone, despite the hesitation
expressed by them.

## 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 51, section II.2, item 20, item 21.

[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
223.