# KnI 114. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00114

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00114.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⟩ sidha bhagavaṁ samasaṁ_budh⟦aṁ⟧⟨⟨o⟩⟩ _ kasapaṁ _ vākāṭicāna _
visākanena saputakena kār(i)⟨to⟩

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhagavaṁ samasaṁ_budho⟦ṁ⟧ ⬦ bhagava samasabudho N&vH • The vocalic
marker o in the last syllable seems to have been added secondarily,
under an anusvāra sign. — ⟨1⟩ kasapaṁ ⬦ kasapā N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ visākanena ⬦
visākena N&vH • Understand visākena. — ⟨1⟩ kār(i)⟨to⟩ ⬦ kār(i)[to] N&vH.

## Translation

Success! The Bhagavant, Perfectly and Completely Awakened One Kassapa
(Skt. Kāśyapa), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of
the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son⟨s⟩.

## 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 79, section II.7, item 6.

[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 83, plate CXXXVII, item 6, plate CXXVII, item A.