# KnI 66. Lower drum slab from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00066

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00066.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⟩ thera(sa) [5+] (j?)[.](ta)sa Atevāsikasa Ayaju(n)[asa]
[sa]bhaginikasa paṭo dāna

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ thera(sa) [5+] (j?)[.](ta)sa ⬦ ther[.] […] (ja)tisa N&vH. — ⟨1⟩
Ayaju(n)[.] ⬦ Ayaju N&vH.

## Translation

A slab: the gift of the Noble Ajjuna (Skt. Arjuna), pupil of the
venerable -ta.

## 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 58, section II.3, item 4.

[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
455, item 47, plate CXXXIV, item 1.