Pupphagahani, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00054.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (f8e3cba), last modified (5d337c0).

Edition

⟨1⟩ himalāya Asabhūtino mātūya dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ himalāya ⬦ himalaya N+vH • Cf. EIAD 325, l. 1: himalasa. — ⟨1⟩ mātūya dānaṁ ⬦ m(ā)t(ūy)[.][…] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Gift of Himalā, the mother of Assabhūti.

Commentary

Previous editors edited the end of this record separately, as Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, § II.2, № 39. From inspection of the stone, it is clear that the two fragments match.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in May 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 54–55, section II.2, item 36, item 39.

[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 475, item 218, item 221.