# KnI 98. Octagonal chattra-pillar with lotus base from the
Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00098

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00098.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⟩ (bh)imhaṇakasa duhu⟨2⟩tuya viranikāya ⟨3⟩ deyadhamaṁ chataṁ

## Apparatus

⟨3⟩ deyadhamaṁ chataṁ ⬦ deyadhama chata N&vH.

## Translation

An umbrella: the pious gift of Viraṇṇikā, the daughter of Bhimhaṇṇaka
(Skt. Bhīṣmaṇṇaka).

## 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. Page 70, section II.5, item 6.

[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 146, plate CXLI, item 12.