Vedikā pillar, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00083.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (29e304a).

Edition

⟨1⟩ mahāgāmilasa nāgaṇakasa ⟨2⟩ k(o)ḍubiniya rāmaṁnikāya dānaṁ

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahāgāmilasa ⬦ mahāgāmilasa N+vH.

⟨2⟩ k(o)ḍubiniya ⬦ koḍubiniya N+vH • Cf. KnI0117, l. 4: kuḍu(ṁb)i(n)[iya]. — ⟨2⟩ rāmaṁnikāya ⬦ rāma(ṇ)ikāya N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Gift of Rāmaṇṇikā, the eminent wife of the Nāgaṇṇaka, the head of a group of villages.

Commentary

On the meaning of koḍubinī (Skt. kuṭumbinī), see Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 64.

While the previous editors take mahāgāmila as indicating origins, I tentatively suggest to understand it as a synonym of mahāgāmika, a title also attested in EIAD 65, l. 2 and EIAD 568, l. 3. The term grāmika is attested, in the Arthaśāstra 3.10.16 and 3.10.18 to designate the head of a village. See Ollett et al. 2025.

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 64, section II.4, item 13.

[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 3, plate CXXX, item 3.