# KnI 73. Vedikā pillar (?) from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00073

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00073.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⟩ Uḷārānaṁ Āyuvadhanikaṁ culayā⟨2⟩(naṁ) deyadhaṁmaṁ pāyako sasujiko

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Uḷārānaṁ ⬦ Uḍārānaṁ N&vH.

⟨1-2⟩ culayā(naṁ) ⬦ cul(i)yā(ya) N&vH.

## Translation

An upright, together with a cross-bar: the pious gift of the lower ones
(?) in order to increase ⟨the⟩ lifespan of the high up ones.

## Commentary

Documented by neither Vincent Tournier nor Robert Arlt. Reedited from
the published picture.

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

[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
451, item 10, plate CXXX, item 10.