Āyāga pillar, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00015.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (d187bc4), last modified (de7a8ee).

Edition

⟨1⟩ dhañakaḍakasa ⟨2⟩ ṇaḷabāhukanaṁ ⟨3⟩ Utikaputasa ⟨4⟩ gahapatino ⟨5⟩ Asilasa ⟨6⟩ samātukasa ⟨7⟩ sabhariyasa ⟨8⟩ saputakasa ⟨9⟩ Āyuvaḍhanikaṁ ⟨10⟩ Āyāgathabhā ⟨11⟩ catāri deyadhamaṁ

Apparatus

⟨9⟩ Āyuvaḍhanikaṁ ⬦ Āyuvaḍhanika N+vH.

⟨11⟩ deyadhamaṁ ⬦ deyadhama N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Four āyāga pillars: The pious gift of the notable Asila from Dhaññakaḍa—son of Utika, belonging to the Ṇaḷabāhuka family—together with his mother, his wife, his son[s], and in order to increase [their?] lifespan.

Commentary

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in April 2025.

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 41–42, section II.1, item 1.

[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 458, item 73, plate CXXXVI, item 6, plate XVI, item B, plate XXVI, item C, page 73, figure 18.