Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00044.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (5615236).

Edition

⟨1⟩ baṭanāyāya sudhamāya saputikāya dāna Uṁn(i)sa

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ baṭanāyāya ⬦ baṭanāyiya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ saputikāya ⬦ saputakāya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Uṁn(i)sa ⬦ panāsa N+vHPoonacha 2011 was correct in seeing an initial U in the first akṣara, although its reading of the inscription is otherwise quite faulty. Cf. EIAD 283: Uṁniso puphaga⟨ha⟩ṇiyaṁ. In both instances, Uṁnisa may point to neighbouring parts of the stūpa’s encasement, see Tournier [2023] 2021–2022, p. 32.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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 52, section II.2, item 26.

[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 66, page 479, item 267.