# KnI 92. Kañcūka from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00092

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00092.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⟩ t(o)ḍakulasa kacūkāniyāt(a)na

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kacūkāniyāt(a)na ⬦ kacūkā ni(cā)tāna N&vH • Zin 2018, p. 99 reads
toḍakulasa kacha kāniyo bhāna, which does not make sense. The mark above
the left arm of the ya, interpreted by the previous editors as a cā, is
probably just an accident of engraving, by a hand whose skills were
limited. A similar unnecessary stroke may be seen to the left of the
t(o). See Cone 2001–2010, s.v. niyyātana; Edgerton 1953, s.v. niryātanā.
See also von von Hinüber 2016, n. 46. My understanding of
kacūkāniyāt(a)na as a compound is tentative. An alternative would be to
understand kacūkā niyāt(a)na as two nominatives, in which case the
phrasing would be that of a donative record. However, and even if
niryātana is an attested synonym of dāna, I think that the choice of
word was informed by the wish to label a scene representing (as
symbolised by the bhṛṅgāra) the handing over of the encasing slabs from
the donors to the monks in charge of the caitya.

## Translation

The consigning of the dome slabs of Toḍa’s family.

## 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 67–68, section II.4, item 23.

[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
467, item 138, plate CXLI, item 4, plate CII.