# Kanheri Epitaph Inscription 25

Kelsey Martini and Vincent Tournier

Authors of digital edition: Kelsey Martini, Vincent Tournier

Contributor: Kelsey Martini

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKanheri00075

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

File path: xml/DHARMA_INSKanheri00075.xml

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

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ pañcaṇha(ṃ) Arahanta⟨2⟩śatāṇaṃ Ayaṃ thūbho

## Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pañcaṇha(ṃ) ⬦ paceṇha G • This Gen. Pl. ending is attested in AMg,
cf. Pischel § 440. As stressed by Pischel § 246, -ṇh- perhaps arose from
a confusion between -ṇṇ- and -h- < -s- from the pronominal genitive
plural ending in -saṃ. See also Norman 1992: 201.

⟨2⟩ Arahanta⟨2⟩śatāṇaṃ> ⬦ Arahant(ā)gratāṇaṁ G • Compare III Bhaj 11
which according to my new edition reads paṃca(n)naṁ vasibhūtasatānaṁ
thū(po). The -po in III Bhaj 11 is engraved below the base-line, due to
an irregularity of the stone.

## Translation

This is the stūpa of the five hundred Arahants.

## Commentary

Compare Gokhale’s translation: “The stupa was erected in the honour of
‘Ārya’ was the best ‘arhat’ every day.

## Bibliography

### Primary

[G] Gokhale, Shobhana. 1991. Kanheri inscriptions. Pune: Deccan College
Post Graduate and Research Institute. Page 136, item E25.