Vedikā pillar?, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00074.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (f8e3cba), last modified (29e304a).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [na]vakam[i]kasa (h)imalaya[sa] ⟨2⟩ [A]t[e]v(ā)sis(a) hima(d)inasa ⟨3⟩ (d)e(yadhama)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ (h)imalaya[sa]vimalaya[sasa] N+vH.

⟨2⟩ [A]t[e]v(ā)sis(a) hima(d)inasa ⬦ ga(tha)sisi(d)imavinasa N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Pious gift of Himadinna, the pupil of the superintendent of construction Himālaya.

Commentary

Documented by neither Vincent Tournier nor Robert Arlt. Reedited from the only published picture (Poonacha 2011, p. 450, № 1, plate CXXX, № 1), where the third line is only partly visible.

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 62, section II.4, item 4.

[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 450, item 1, plate CXXX, item 1.