# KnI 116. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00116

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00116.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 _ bhagavā _ bodhisato _ Ayito _ Anāgato _ budho _ Upāsakena
vākāḍhicāna ⟨2⟩ visāghena _ saputakena _ kārito _ savalokasa hitasughāca

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vākāḍhicāna ⬦ vākāḍ(h)icāna[ṁ] N&vH.

⟨2⟩ hitasughāca • Understand hitasughāya.

## Translation

Success! The Bhagavant, Bodhisattva Ayita (Skt. Ajita), the future
Buddha, commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the
Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son⟨s⟩, for the well-being and
happiness of the whole world.

## 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 79–80, section II.7, item 8.

[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
461, item 85, plate CXXXVII, item 8, plate CXXVII, item D.