Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

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Edition

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

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ baṭanāyāyabaṭanāyiya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ saputikāyasaputakāya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Uṁn(i)sapanāsa 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

A coping: the gift of the baṭanāyā (?) Sudhammā together with her daughter⟨s⟩.

Commentary

Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 52 interprets what it reads as baṭanāyiya as “probably an adjective referring to the place name Bataṇa.” It is not impossible, but such a place is not attested anywhere, but it could also be the name of a second donor.

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 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.