# KnI 325. Memorial stone fragment from Kanaganahalli/Sannati

Vincent Tournier and Andrew Ollett

Authors of digital edition: Vincent Tournier, Andrew Ollett

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00325

Repository: Kanaganahalli (tfb-kanaganahalli-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanaganahalli00325.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ mahānasakava[…]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahānasakava ⬦ mahānasukav(o) N&vH.

## Translation

Of the Brahmin (mahāna-, cf. Prakrit/Ardhamagadhi māhaṇa-) Kava- …

## Bibliography

This edition by Vincent Tournier and Andrew Ollett. Encoded in XML by Fu
Fan in August 2025.

### Primary

[S&VR] Sarma, I. Karthikeya & J. Varaprasada Rao. 1993. Early Brāhmī
inscriptions from Sannati. New Delhi: Harman. [URL]. Page 99, item E.5.

[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 113–114, section VI, item 2.

[H] Howell, J. R. 1995. Excavations at Sannathi, 1986–1989. Memoirs of
the Archaeological Survey of India 93. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey
of India. Page 84.