Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00037.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (04bc718).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (s)idha || dhamakadhikasa nāgasi⟨ri⟩sa dejadhama sa[ha]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (s)idha ⬦ s(i)dham N+vH • who refer to a “rare virāma written as a vertical stroke above the akṣara dha.” See also Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 14. What looks like a (horizontal) stroke in the picture reproduced by them is in fact a crack in the stone. — ⟨1⟩ sa[ha] • Reconstructed on the basis of the exact parallel, KnI 38.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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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. Page 50, section II.2, item 18.

[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 206.