Lower drum slab, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00014.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (2cdbc1d).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [namo bha](ga)gavato budhasa raño māḍhariputasa siripulumāvisa (sa)[vachare] [5+] diva(s)[aṁ] 5 s(i)dakapavatakasa U(v)[āsakasa] ⟨2⟩ [1×] va vāṇijaputasa hāgāṇa kaṇhasirisa samātukasa [sabhā](t)ukasa saputakasa dejadhama cetiyapaṭo sava(l)[oka]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [bha](ga)vato ⬦ [bhaga]vato N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ māḍhariputasa • The is engraved above a previously traced akṣara, such as a ka or more likely a second ño written by dittography. — ⟨1⟩ diva(s)[aṁ] 5d(i)va (10) 5 N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ s(i)dakapavatakasa ⬦ s(ā)dakapavatakasa N+vH • The vocalic marker of the first akṣara, although it is damaged, rather clearly curves rightwards. Sidaka possibly stands for Skt. siddhaka, pointing to a kind of tree. See Böhtlingk and Roth 1855–1875, s.v. — ⟨1⟩ U(v)[āsakasa](dhava) N+vH.

⟨2⟩ [1×] va ⬦ (de)va N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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. Pages 38–40, section I, item 14.

[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 469, item 150, plate CXLVII, item A & B, plate L, item A, plate XXVI, item A.