# KnI 101. Octagonal pillar fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00101

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00101.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⟩ mahāvinaseli(y)[āna]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahāvinaseli(y)[āna] ⬦ mahāvinase(pa)[.]i N&vH.

## Translation

… of the Mahāvinaseliyas …

## Commentary

Inscription engraved on the opposite side of the same pillar bearing
KnI0267.

## 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 71–72, section II.5, item 9.

Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Buddhist lineages along the Southern Routes:
on two nikāyas active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In:
Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in
Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Edited by Vincent Tournier, Vincent
Eltschinger & Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli
Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Pages 870–871.