# KnI 97. Octagonal chattra-pillar fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa
– unknown reign, year 10

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00097

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00097.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⟩ [sa]vachara 10 gimh(ā)na ⟨2⟩ [deya]dhama sahā bhayāya ⟨3⟩ chatadhayo
mātāpi⟨4⟩tuna hitasughāya

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [sa]vachara ⬦ [sa]vachare N&vH.

⟨3⟩ chatadhayo ⬦ chat(e)dhayo N&vH.

## Translation

… in the 10th year … of the summer. An umbrella shaft: the pious gift …
together with his wife, for the well-being and happiness of his parents.

## Commentary

Although the name of the ruler is missing, is possible that this
inscribed umbrella shaft, like KnI0012 and KnI0263, dates from the reign
of Gotamīputta Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in June 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 69–70, section II.5, item 5.

[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
468, item 145, plate CXLI, item 11.