Lower drum slab, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00065.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (d2d9a51).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sāpuḍiyā sirikasabodhiyā saputigāya paṭo dāna

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ dāna ⬦ dāna(ṁ) N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

A slab: the gift of Siri-Saṁbodhī from Sāpuḍi (?), together with her daughter[s].

Commentary

The likely toponym Sāpuḍi occurs again in KnI 94, where it is related to the Mahisa country.

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 58, section II.3, item 3.

[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 455, item 56, plate CXXXIV, item 9.