# KnI 110. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00110

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00110.xml

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

Commit: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-17 05:18
(c5af99e)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

## Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavā _ samasabudho _ sighi _ vāgāḍhi⟨⟨cā⟩⟩na _ visāghena _
saputakena _ kārito selavaḍhakisa _ Ā⟨sa⟩devasa panatu⟨ke⟩na ⟨2⟩
saminagasa natukena māḍhasa putena _ nāgabudhinā kato

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vāgāḍhi⟨⟨cā⟩⟩na ⬦ vāgāḍhina N&vH • who did not see that a cā was
inserted above the line.

## Translation

The Bhagavant, Perfectly and Completely Awakened One Sighi (Skt.
Śikhin): commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the
Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son⟨s⟩. Made by Nāgabuddhi, the son
of Māḍha, grandson of Sāmināga, and great-grandson of Āsadeva, the
sculptor.

## 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. Page 77, section II.7, item 2.

[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
460, item 81, plate CXXXVII, item 4, plate CXXVII, item C.