# KnI 315. Slab fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Vincent Tournier

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00315

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00315.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ siddha(ṁ) _ raño vāseṭh(ī)putasa _ sirisā(da)[kaṇisa] ⟨2⟩
(pa)vajitena _ nāgabu(dh)i(n)[ā _]) [2×] (raI)] [1×] de [.]i[…] ⟨3⟩
yakh[i]yāya [2×] […]

## 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.