# KnI 100. Octagonal pillar fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00100

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00100.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⟩ [3+] [1×] [11+] [1×] [13+] ⟨2⟩ satikena _ mahāsenadatena _
k[u]māradatena _ (b)[ā](l)[i]kāya ca viraṁnik[āya] ⟨3⟩
saval(o)kahita(s)[ughāya]

## Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (b)[ā](l)[i]kāya ⬦ (bodhi)kāya N&vH. — ⟨2⟩ viraṁnik[āya] ⬦
v[i]ranik[āya] N&vH.

## Translation

… ⟨a gift⟩ … by Mahāsenadatta—the Sa(ṁ)tika—, Kumāradatta and ⟨his⟩
daughter Viraṇṇikā, for the welfare and happiness of the whole world.

## 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 71, section II.5, item 8.

[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 148, plate CXLII, item 2.