Pupphagahani fragments, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00038.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ dhamakadhikasa nāgas(i)r[i]sa (de)[ja](dha)ma saha (bhā)[t]unā nāgabudhinā

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (de)[ja](dha)ma ⬦ (d)[eja](dhama) N+vH • What the previous editors take as a daṇḍa is probably just an accident of engraving.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! The pious gift of the expounder of the Dharma Nāgasiri, together with his brother Nāgabuddhi.

Commentary

Misidentified with Poonacha 2011, № 199 in Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014.

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 50–51, section II.2, item 19.