# KnI 55. Pupphagahani fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00055

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00055.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⟩ khatiyasa raṭhisa dāna(ṁ)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ raṭhisa dāna(ṁ) ⬦ Iṭhasa N&vH • who note: “The initial i- is written
like the akṣara ra with one dot at either side, which, in later scripts,
would indicate a long ī-.” There are however no such dots visible on the
stone, and nowhere else in the inscriptions of the site is the archaic I
described in this instance by the editors to be found. — ⟨1⟩ dāna(ṁ) ⬦
[…] N&vH • commenting: “The end of the inscription, most likely (dāna),
is rubbed off.”

## Translation

Gift of the kṣatriya Raṭṭhi.

## 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 55, section II.2, item 37.