# KnI 44. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00044

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00044.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⟩ baṭanāyāya sudhamāya saputikāya dāna Uṁn(i)sa

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ baṭanāyāya ⬦ baṭanāyiya N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ saputikāya ⬦ saputakāya N&vH. —
⟨1⟩ Uṁn(i)sa ⬦ panāsa N&vH • Poonacha 2011 was correct in seeing an
initial U in the first akṣara, although its reading of the inscription
is otherwise quite faulty. Cf. EIAD 283: Uṁniso puphaga⟨ha⟩ṇiyaṁ. In
both instances, Uṁnisa may point to neighbouring parts of the stūpa’s
encasement, see Tournier [2023] 2021–2022, p. 32.

## Translation

A coping: the gift of the baṭanāyā (?) Sudhammā together with her
daughter⟨s⟩.

## Commentary

Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, p. 52 interprets what it reads as
baṭanāyiya as “probably an adjective referring to the place name
Bataṇa.” It is not impossible, but such a place is not attested
anywhere, but it could also be the name of a second donor.

## 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 52, section II.2, item 26.

[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
456, item 66, page 479, item 267.