# KnI 111. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00111

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00111.xml

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

Commit: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-19 17:08
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavā _ budho vesabhū _ vāgāḍhicanaṁ _ visaghena saputakena kāritā
_ selavaḍhakisa Āsadevisa ⟨2⟩ panatukena _ samināgasa _ nātukena _
māḍhasa putena _ rāyāmacena bodhigutena ⟨3⟩ kato

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kāritā • Understand kārito.

## Translation

The Bhagavant, Buddha Vessabhū (Skt. Viśvabhū), 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.

## 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 77–78, section II.7, item 3.

[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 82, plate CXXXVII, item 5, plate CXXVIII, item B.