# KnI 74. Vedikā pillar (?) from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00074

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00074.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⟩ [na]vakam[i]kasa (h)imalaya[sa] ⟨2⟩ [A]t[e]v(ā)sis(a) hima(d)inasa
⟨3⟩ (d)e(yadhama)

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (h)imalaya[sa] ⬦ vimalaya[sasa] N&vH.

⟨2⟩ [A]t[e]v(ā)sis(a) hima(d)inasa ⬦ ga(tha)sisi(d)imavinasa N&vH.

## Translation

Pious gift of Himadinna, the pupil of the superintendent of construction
Himālaya.

## Commentary

Documented by neither Vincent Tournier nor Robert Arlt. Reedited from
the only published picture (Poonacha 2011, p. 450, № 1, plate CXXX, №
1), where the third line is only partly visible.

## 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 62, section II.4, 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
450, item 1, plate CXXX, item 1.