# KnI 59. Pupphagahani in two pieces from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00059

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00059.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⟩ da [1×] sa dāna(ṁ) <nandyāvarta>

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ da [1×] sa ⬦ […]da[.](e) sa N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ dāna(ṁ) <nandyāvarta> ⬦ dāna
N&vH.

## Translation

Gift of …

## Commentary

Previous editors edited the end of this record separately, as Nakanishi
& von Hinüber 2014, § II.2, № 38. From inspection of the stone, it is
clear that the two fragments match. Both fragments correspond to
Poonacha 2011, № 216.

## 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 56, section II.2, item 43, page 55,
section II.2, item 38.

[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
216.