# Kanheri Epitaph Inscription 23

Kelsey Martini and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier

Contributor: Kelsey Martini

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanheri00073

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

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanheri00073.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ therāṇaṃ Ayyasivaṇā⟨2⟩gāṇaṃ Araha[ṃ]tāṇaṃ ⟨3⟩ [cha]labhi(ñā)ṇaṃ
[thūbhaṃ]

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ Ayyasivaṇā⟨2⟩gāṇaṃ ⬦ Āyyasivanāgānaṁ G.

⟨2⟩ Araha[ṃ]tāṇaṃ ⬦ Arahantāṇaṃ G.

⟨3⟩ [cha]labhi(ñā)ṇaṃ [thūbhaṃ] ⬦ [cha]labhi(ña)ṇaṃ [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 E23.