Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Vincent Tournier, Robert Arlt.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00034.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (2cdbc1d).

Edition

⟨1⟩ therāna bhayatamahārakhitāna Atevāsiniya (A)la(ka)nha(k)iciya (U)t(i)yāya mahācetiye d(e)yadhama

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ therāna bhayatamahārakhitāna ⬦ (the)[rāna] [bha](yata ma)(rakhitāna) N+vH.

⟨1⟩ Atevāsiniya ⬦ Atevāsinā[1+] N+vH.

⟨1⟩ (A)la(ka)nha(k)iciya ⬦ [4+]kācaya N+vH-kici may be here feminine form for -kica, a term attested in composition with what appear to be toponyms in the Amaravati corpus. See EIAD 278, l. 1: [ca]dakicasa gahapatisa kanhatiputasa …; EIAD 312, l. 1-2: chadākicasa sethipamukhasa bhadanigamasa; EIAD 350, l. 1: …tulakicasa gahapatisa kubulasa putasa …. Lüders 1912, p. 179, № 1205a renders the latter compound as “inhabitant of Tulaka”.

⟨1⟩ (U)t(i)yāya ⬦ [2+]taya[2+] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

The pious gift to the mahācaitya of Uttiyā, the alakanhakicī?, a pupil of the venerable reverend Mahārakkhita.

Commentary

Although not recognised by Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, this inscription very probably corresponds to Poonacha 2011, № 222.

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. Pages 49–50, section II.2, item 15.

[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. Item 222.