# KnI 83. Vedikā pillar from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00083

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00083.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⟩ mahāgāmilasa nāgaṇakasa ⟨2⟩ k(o)ḍubiniya rāmaṁnikāya dānaṁ

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahāgāmilasa ⬦ mahāgāmilasa N&vH.

⟨2⟩ k(o)ḍubiniya ⬦ koḍubiniya N&vH • Cf. KnI0117, l. 4:
kuḍu(ṁb)i(n)[iya]. — ⟨2⟩ rāmaṁnikāya ⬦ rāma(ṇ)ikāya N&vH.

## Translation

Gift of Rāmaṇṇikā, the eminent wife of the Nāgaṇṇaka, the head of a
group of villages.

## Commentary

On the meaning of koḍubinī (Skt. kuṭumbinī), see Nakanishi & von Hinüber
2014, p. 64.

While the previous editors take mahāgāmila as indicating origins, I
tentatively suggest to understand it as a synonym of mahāgāmika, a title
also attested in EIAD 65, l. 2 and EIAD 568, l. 3. The term grāmika is
attested, in the Arthaśāstra 3.10.16 and 3.10.18 to designate the head
of a village. See Ollett et al. 2025.

## 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 64, section II.4, item 13.

[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 3, plate CXXX, item 3.