Āyaka frieze, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00013.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (00f4cdf).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (si)dha namo bhagavato raño vāsiṭhiputasa sirisātakanisa sava 10 1 vāpa 1 di 1 pavaItasa kanhasirisa bhātuṇo saghakasa deyadha(ma)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sirisātakanisa ⬦ saḍasatakanisa N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ pavaItasa ⬦ pavabātasa N+vH • Noting “Although the reading pavabātasa kanhasir[i]sa is beyond doubt, this is certainly an error for pavayitasa, silently corrected in MASI, once the inscription III.2,1 [= KnI0146] is compared.” (Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 38)

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! Hommage to the Bhagavant! In the 11th year of King Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Sātakaṇṇi, on the 1st fortnight of the rainy season, on the 1th day. The pious gift of Saṅghaka, the brother of the renunciant Kaṇhasiri.

Commentary

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. Page 38, section I, item 13.

[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. Page 457, item 68, plate CXXXVI, item 1, plate CXLV.