# KnI 77. Vedikā pillar from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00077

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00077.xml

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

Commit: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-19 17:08
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ himarakhitāya Atevā⟨2⟩(s)iniyā vidhiyā dānaṁ

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ Atevā(s)iniyā ⬦ Atevā[s]iniyā N&vH.

## Translation

Gift of Vidhī, the pupil of Himarakkhitā.

## Commentary

Not documented by Vincent Tournier in 02/2020. Reedited from the only
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. Pages 62–63, section II.4, item 7.

[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 12, plate CXXXI, item 2.