Octagonal chattra-pillar with lotus base, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00096.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (0a2f922), last modified (81d8f79).

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 by Vincent Tournier

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.

Commentary

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.