Octagonal chattra-pillar with lotus base, Kanaganahalli stūpa

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Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha || namo bhagavato budhasa _ bhikhusa _ budhikayasa _ chataṁ deyadhamaṁ

⟨2⟩ sahā mātāpitūhi

⟨3⟩ sahā ca bhaginihi golā⟨A⟩ ca bodhiA ca sava⟨⟨lo⟩⟩kahitāya

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ chataṁ deyadhamaṁ ⬦ chata deyadhama N+vH.

⟨3⟩ sahā ⬦ saha N+vH. — ⟨3⟩ bhaginihi ⬦ bhaginīhi N+vH. — ⟨3⟩ golā⟨A⟩ ca • Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014 suggest instead that ca and ya might be confused here as in KnI 116.

Translation

Success! Hommage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha! An umbrella: the pious gift of the monk Buddhikaya, together his parents, his sisters Golā and Bodhī, for well-being of the whole world.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in June 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 69, section II.5, 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 467, item 144, plate CXLI, item 10.