# Kanheri Epitaph Inscription 21

Kelsey Martini and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier

Contributor: Kelsey Martini

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanheri00071

Repository: Early Western Deccan (tfb-earlywesterndeccan-epigraphy)

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanheri00071.xml

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ therāṇaṁ kh(emakar)[āṇaṁ] ⟨2⟩ jayiṇaṃ
tiṇha[ṃ][A](ra)ha⟨3⟩(nta)satāṇaṃ thūbh(aṃ)卍

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kh(emakar)[āṇaṁ] ⬦ bha(danta) [4+] G • This hypothetical reading is
supported by KI00062, l. 2: khemakarāṇaṁ

⟨2⟩ jayiṇaṃ ⬦ jāyiṇaṃ G • Understand jhāyiṇaṃ. Cf. KI00052, l. 2. — ⟨2⟩
[A](ra)ha⟨3⟩(nta)satāṇaṃ ⬦ (A)raha(ntā)ṇaṃ G.

⟨3⟩ thūbh(aṃ)卍 ⬦ thūbhaṃ G.

## Translation

Stūpa of the three hundred arhats, [accomplished] meditators, [headed
by?] the venerable Khemaṃkara.

## Commentary

⟨2⟩ tiṇhaṃ This is the Gen. Pl. of the numeral three, see KI00075, l. 1:
pañcaṇha(ṃ) and references provided there.

## Bibliography

### Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College
Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 132, item E21.