Pupphagahani fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00055.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

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

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 55, section II.2, item 37.