# KnI 109. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00109

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00109.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Southern Brāhmī (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavā bu⟨⟨dho⟩⟩ vivasi _ Upāsakena _ vāgāḍhicānaṁ _ visāghena _
kārapito _ saputakena sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa) ⟨2⟩ Āsadevasa _ panatukena _
samināgasa _ nātukena _ māḍhasa putena rayāmacena bodhigutena kato

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa) ⬦ selaḍhaki(sa) N&vH • rightly commenting “… the
word ¿selaḍhikasa? is a mistake for selavaḍhakisa.”

## Translation

The Bhagavant, Buddha Vivassi (Skt. Vipaśyin), commissioned by the
upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with
his son⟨s⟩. Made by Bodigutta the royal officer, the son of Māḍha,
grandson of Sāmināga, and great-grandson of Āsadeva, the sculptor.

## Commentary

On the meaning of amacca (attested in KnI 86) and rājāmacca in early
epigraphy, see the preliminary considerations of Lielukhine2003_01. That
an artist is here provided with this distinguished status is not unheard
of. Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥 1996, № Sanchi 384, records the donation
of the personal foreman (āvesani) of King Siri-Sātakaṇṇi. On the title
āvesani, see also Tournier 2020, p. 870.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in May 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 76–77, section II.7, item 1.

[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
459, item 80, plate CXXXVII, item 3, plate CXXVIII, item A.

### Secondary

Lielukhine2003_01

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]. Page 870.