KnI 315. Slab fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

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

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00315.

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Version: 2026-10-22 02:04 (be11620), last modified 2026-09-19 17:49 (3ba39bf).

Edition

⟨1⟩ siddha(ṁ) _ raño vāseṭh(ī)putasa _ sirisā(da)[kaṇisa]

⟨2⟩ (pa)vajitena _ nāgabu(dh)i(n)[ā _]) [**] (raI)] [*] de [.]i[…]

⟨3⟩ yakh[i]yāya [**] […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ siddha(ṁ) ⬦ siddham NR; sidhaṃ N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ vāseṭh(ī)putasa ⬦ vasiṭhiputasa NR; vāseṭhiputasa N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ sirisā(da)[kaṇisa] ⬦ sirisata NR; siri s(āta)[kaṇisa] N&vH • See KnI0010, l. 1: s(i)ris(ā)dakaṇi(sa).

⟨2⟩ [2×] (raI)] [1×] de [.]i ⬦ Antevāsiniya bhikhuṇiyā NR; Atevāsiniya bhikhuniyā N&vH • The reading is unclear, but the reconstruction suggested by Nagaraja Rao 1985 and accepted in later publications is impossible and, as stressed by Nakanishi & von Hinüber 2014, pp. 19–20, it “does not make sense.”

Bibliography

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

Primary

[NR] Nagaraja Rao, M. S. 1985. “Brāhmī inscriptions and their bearing on the great stūpa at Sannati.” In: Indian epigraphy: Its bearing on the history of art. Edited by Frederick M. Asher & Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH; American Institute of Indian Studies, pp. 41–45. Page 41, item 1, plate 55.

Sarma, I. Karthikeya & J. Varaprasada Rao. 1993. Early Brāhmī inscriptions from Sannati. New Delhi: Harman. [URL]. Page 75, item A.2.

[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 19–20, item B.

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