Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00026.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (0aa97b7), last modified (d8fe100).

Edition

⟨1⟩ manikārasa mahamar(i)tino sabhāriyasa saputakasa sadu(h)[utakasa] (sajā)mātukasa dāna cetiya pu(pha)gaha⟨2⟩nik(a)

Apparatus

⟨1-2⟩ cetiya pu(pha)gahanika ⬦ (cetiyapu)[pha](gaha)[ni] N+vH • who seem to have missed the two akṣaras engraved below line 1, for lack of space.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

A shrine[-bearing slab and a?] pupphagahani: the gift of the jeweller Mahāmariti, together with his wife, his son[s], his daughter[s], and his son[s]-in law.

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. Page 47, section II.2, item 7.

[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 456, item 65b, plate CXXXV, item 8.