# KnI 99. Octagonal pillar fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00099

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00099.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⟩ (na)mo bhaga(va)to _ budha(sa)[…] ⟨2⟩ […](to ca) tha(bho) be
dam(u)[r](ī)[…] ⟨3⟩ […]kārapitaṁ _ sa(ṁ)gha[…] ⟨4⟩ [sat](ike)na
mahāsena(date)[na]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (to ca) tha(bho) be dam(u)[r](ī) ⬦ (toda)thuthibadama N&vH • The
tentative reading dam(u)[r](ī) may be compared to damurā, occurring on
several floor slabs from Kesanapalli, see EIAD 231, 233, 234. The
derivation of this term remains unclear.

⟨4⟩ [sat](ike)na mahāsena(date)[na] ⬦ (ke)na m(ā)hisa(kasa) N&vH • My
reconstruction is supported by KnI0100 and by the fragment KnI0292, l.
2, reading satikena ma(h).

## Translation

Hommage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha! … a pillar and two floor slabs (?)
were ordered to be made, by Saṅgha-…, ⟨and⟩ Mahāsenadatta—the Sa(ṁ)tika
…

## 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 70–71, section II.5, item 7.

[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 147, plate CXLII, item 1.