KnI 187. Kañcūka (upper part) from the Kanaganahalli stūpa
Version: (fb2efc2), last modified (c5af99e).
Translation
The acrobat (and his apprentice) Meyakathālikā.
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 106, section IV, 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 466, item 135, plate CXLI, item 1, plate LXXXVI.
Secondary
Anālayo, Bhikkhu. 2015. Saṃyukta-āgama studies. Taipei: Dharma Drum.
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Commentary
meyakathālikā. On the identification of Meyakathālikā with P. Medhakathālikā, the apprentice named in the simile of the caṇḍālavaṃsika in the Sedakasutta of the Saṃyuttanikāya (SN V.168.16–169.25 ) and its parallels, see Anālayo 2015: 318. See also, on the genre of the apprentice, Anālayo 2015: 316, n. 18.