# KnI 263. Octagonal pillar fragments from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00263

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00263.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⟩ ⟨Fragment a⟩ […]siriyanasātaka(ṇi)[sa saṁvachare] [1+] ⟨Fragment b⟩
gimhā pakh(e) 6 ⟨2⟩ [sati] ⟨Fragment a⟩ (ka)na mahadatasa [dāna cha]
⟨Fragment b⟩ ta mahācetiye ∥∥

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ siriyanasātaka(ṇi)[sa saṁvachare] ⬦ siriyana sātakaṇi P. — ⟨1⟩ gimhā
pakh(e) 6 ⬦ gimha pakha 5 P.

⟨2⟩ [sati](ka)na mahadatasa [dāna] ⬦ ni mehadatasa P • Compare KnI0011.
— ⟨2⟩ [cha]ta mahācetiye ⬦ ta mahācetiye P.

## Translation

… In the … year of [King Gotamīputta] Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi, in the 6th
fortnight of summer: an umbrella for the Great Shrine, [as gift] of
Mahādatta of the Sa(ṁ)tika ⟨family⟩.

## Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML
by Fu Fan in July 2025.

### Primary

[P] 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. Item
255, item 254.