Āyāga frieze, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00018.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [s](i)dha korugālakāna ĀcariĀna bhayatasatikana Atevāsin[i]ya bhikhuniya dhamarakhitiya Adh(āl)[akacetiyadhamaraIka]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhayatasatikana ⬦ bhayata satak(ā)na N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ dhamarakhitiya ⬦ dhamarakhitāya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Adh(āl)[akacetiyadhamaraIka](Ay)[āgapaṭā] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! … pertaining to the dharmarājika Adhālaka Shrine, of the nun Dhammarakkhitā, pupil of master reverend Sa(ṃ)tika from Korugāla.

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 43–44, section II.1, item 4.

[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 72, plate CXXXVI, item 5, plate XXV, item C.