# KnI 49. Pupphagahani from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00049

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00049.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⟩ māh(i)sekasa _ Upāsakasa (bal)asa saputakasa (d)āna(ṁ)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ māh(i)sekasa _ Upāsakasa ⬦ omitted N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ (bal)asa ⬦ [2×](l)asa
N&vH.

## Translation

Gift of the upāsaka Bala from the Mahisa (country), together with his
son⟨s⟩.

## Commentary

The fragment of the upper left part of a puphagahani edited as Poonacha
2011, № 265 fits nicely with the part that broke away from the piece
edited by Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014 as Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014,
§ II.2, № 31.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in May 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 53, section II.2, item 31.

[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
265, item 209.