KnI 83. Vedikā pillar from the Kanaganahalli stūpa author of digital edition Vincent Tournier European Research Council (ERC), grant agreement no 809994 DHARMA Munich DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00083.xml CC BY-SA 4.0 2019-2026 DHARMAbase

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mahāgāmilasa nāgaṇakasakoḍubiniya rāmaṁnikāya dānaṁ

mahāgāmilasa mahāgāmilasa koḍubiniya koḍubiniya Cf. KnI0117, l. 4: kuḍuṁbiniya. rāmaṁnikāya rāmaṇikāya

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

On the meaning of koḍubinī (Skt. kuṭumbinī), see 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.

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in May 2025.

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