Octagonal chattra-pillar, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa – reign of Gotamīputta Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi, year 10

Editors: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00011.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (96d125e), last modified (96b1d60).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [ya]ñasātakaṇ(i)sa saṁvachare (10) gimhānaṁ ⟨2⟩ [pakhe] (5) (sa)t(i)ka(ṇa) mahadatasa dāna chata ⟨3⟩ mahācetiye ~

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ [pakhe] (5) (sa)t(i)ka(ṇa) mahadatasa ⬦ ta(kā)na mahaḍatasa N+vH • The individual mentioned here appears to be the same as Sa(ṁ)tika Mahāsenadatta, occurring as donor in KnI0099, KnI0100. In KnI0263, the donor is similarly called mahadata-, which may be short for Mahāsenadatta. Also, in both inscriptions, the ending satikana, as opposed to satikena in KnI0100 (and probably in KnI0099) may be understood as standing for satikāna, a genitive plural of belonging.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

… In the 10th year of [King Gotamīputta Siri-]Yaññasātakaṇṇi, in the 5th fortnight of summer. An umbrella for the Great Shrine: the gift of Mahādatta of the Sa(ṁ)tika [family].

Commentary

None of the three fragments reproduced in Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014 were documented by either Robert Arlt or Vincent Tournier. The identification of Poonacha 2011, № 256 as a fragment of the same inscribed object is due to Robert Arlt.

Bibliography

Primary

[N+vH] Nakanishi, Maiko and 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 35–36, section I, item 11.

[MASI] Poonacha, K. P. 2011. Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati), taluk Chitapur, dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India 106. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Item 256.