# KnI 67. Drum slab from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00067

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00067.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-19 19:28
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ p(o)kuḍurakasa yakhasa dhamaca[ka] [dā]na

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ p(o)kuḍurakasa ⬦ pekuṇirakasa N&vH • The editors note: “The name of
the Yakṣa, which is read erroneously Pōkōtūraka in MASI, does not seem
to be known from other sources.” Once the correct reading p(o)kuḍurakasa
is established, it becomes clear that this is the same toponym known
from KnI0064 (where it also occurs along with māhiseka), and that yakha
must, contextually, be the proper name of the donor.

## Translation

A Dharma-wheel ⟨relief⟩: the gift of Yakkha from Pokuḍura.

## Commentary

The inscriptions is engraved above KnI0094, in smaller and more shallow
letters.

## 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 58–59, section II.3, item 5.

[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 51, plate CXXXIV, item 5.