# KnI 64. Lower drum slab from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier and Robert Arlt

Authors of digital edition: Vincent Tournier, Robert Arlt

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00064

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00064.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⟩ (p)[o]kuḍurakasa mah(i)s(eka)sa vi(ma)la[sa dānaṁ] paṭo

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mah(i)s(eka)sa vi(ma)la[sa dānaṁ] ⬦ mah(i)s[eka]sa va [2+] la[sa
deyadhama] N&vH • The name Vimala is attested in Tsukamoto Keishō
塚本啓祥 1996, № Sanc 225. There is only the space for three missing
akṣaras between the preserved la and the pa, so the reconstruction dānaṁ
seems preferable to deyadhama.

## Translation

A slab: the gift of Vimala from Pokuḍura, from the Mahisa (country).

## Commentary

On the place name Pokuḍura, see also KnI 67.

## 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. Pages 57–58, section II.3, item 2.

[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
185.