# KnI 146. Āyāga frieze from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00146

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00146.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⟩ pava[y](i)[ta](sa) _ kanhasirisa _ bhaginiya _ nāṇakāya _ deyadhama

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pava[y](i)[ta](sa) ⬦ pava[jita](sa) N&vH • The proposed restoration
is better supported by the orthography of the term at the site. See
KnI0078, l. 1: [pa]vayitasa. It is also phonologically closer to
pavaItasa (then misread by Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014) adopted, to
characterise the same monk, in KnI0013.

## 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.2, item 1.

[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
457, item 70, plate CXXXVI, item 3, plate XXXIV, item B, plate CXXV,
items A-C.