Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00030.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (f8e3cba), last modified (04bc718).

Edition

⟨1⟩ dhañakaḍakasa har[i]pusasa paṭa(ṁ) dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ har[i]pusasa ⬦ harapusasa N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ paṭa(ṁ) dānaṁ ⬦ paṭadāna N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

A [pupphagahani] slab: the gift of Haripussa from Dhaññakaḍa.

Commentary

Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 48, note: “Here either the puphagahani is referred to as paṭa “slab,” or, more likely, if inscriptions II.2,9 (=KnI 28) and II.2,10 (=KnI 29) are compared, the puphagahani and the accompanying slab seem to be the object of donation.” KnI 29 in fact reads (p)uphagahani dānaṁ and not (p)uphagahapa[ṭa]. Moreover, KnI 61 refers to the dedicated object as puphapaṭo, which does in fact support that pupphagahanis are sometimes more losely refer to as “slabs”. I have thus translated accordingly.

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. Page 48, section II.2, item 11.

[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 217.