# KnI 145. Kañcūka (lower part) from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier and Robert Arlt

Authors of digital edition: Vincent Tournier, Robert Arlt

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00145

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00145.xml

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

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

⟨1⟩ kumār[o] A[yira](n)aṁdo

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ A[yira](n)aṁdo ⬦ (A)[…] N&vH • According to the photo-montage
prepared by Robert Arlt, there is enough space for two akṣaras after the
damaged A. MIA ayira is common in the inscriptions of Āndhra, although
it is not otherwise attested at Kanaganahalli, where aya is more common.

## Commentary

The second fragment, (Poonacha 2011, № 246) was unknown to Nakanishi &
von Hinüber 2014.

## 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 91, section III.1, item 18.

[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
477, item 242, plate LXXIV, item B, plate CVII, page 477, item 246.