Puphagahani in two pieces, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00021.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (b60d350), last modified (ce31db7).

Edition

⟨1⟩ Utaramitāya dāna(ṁ) puphagahan(i) v[i]s[a]y[i]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ dāna(ṁ)dānam N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

A pupphagahani: the gift of Uttaramittā. Twenty.

Commentary

On the problematic last word, which in light of KnI 22, seems to be a number, see Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 46. Note that the supposed third instance of a number (panāsa, “fifty”) on the pupphagahani bearing KnI 44 has now proved unsupported. It seems to me unlikely that both numbers in KnI 21 and 22 serve as location markers, and I would rather interpret this as indicating a length of the object given. Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014 assert that the length of the pupphagahani is uniform, but this is contradicted by the observation of the objects in question. That bearing bearing KnI 21 does seems unusually long, so this may have justified this mention.

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 45–46, section II.2, item 2.

[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 474, item 207.