KnI 17. Āyāga frieze from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00017.

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Version: 2026-08-03 20:48 (d1750c9), last modified 2026-07-17 15:36 (581605e).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [sidha | korugālakāna] AcariĀna bhayatasatikaṇa _ Atevāsiniya (pa)vaIt(ā)ya (b)udharakhitāya _ Ayākapaṭā _ Adh(ā)lakacetiyadhamaraIka_deyadhama patiṭhāpit(ā t)[i]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhayatasatikaṇa ⬦ bhayata sat(ikana) N&vH • Read -kana, as in KnI0018. — ⟨1⟩ (pa)vaIt(ā)ya ⬦ (pa)vajit(ā)ya N&vH. — ⟨1⟩ Adh(ā)laka- • Could be read aṃdhalaka. — ⟨1⟩ -dhamaraIka- ⬦ -dhamarajaka N&vH • Tournier 2020 understands this as forming a compound with the following deyadhama, but -dhamaraIka could also be understood as un uninflected locative. — ⟨1⟩ patiṭhāpit(ā t)[i] ⬦ patiṭhāpit(ā) [1×] […] N&vH.

Translation

Success! Āyāga panels were established as the pious gift — pertaining to the dharmarājika Adhālaka Shrine — of the renunciant Buddharakkhitā, pupil of master reverend Sa(ṃ)tika [from Korugāla].

Bibliography

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

Primary

[N&vH] Nakanishi, Maiko & 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 42–43, section II.1, item 3.

[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 71, plate CXXXVI, item 4, plate XXV, plate CXXII.

[T] Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Buddhist lineages along the Southern Routes: on two nikāyas active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In: Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Edited by Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger & Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Pages 880–882.

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