Pupphagahani fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00055.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ khatiyasa raṭhisa dāna(ṁ)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ raṭhisa dāna(ṁ)Iṭhasa N+vH • who note: “The initial i- is written like the akṣara ra with one dot at either side, which, in later scripts, would indicate a long ī-.” There are however no such dots visible on the stone, and nowhere else in the inscriptions of the site is the archaic I described in this instance by the editors to be found. — ⟨1⟩ dāna(ṁ)[…] N+vH • commenting: “The end of the inscription, most likely (dāna), is rubbed off.”

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Gift of the kṣatriya Raṭṭhi.

Commentary

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. Page 55, section II.2, item 37.