Octagonal chattra-pillar, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa – unknown reign, year 10
Editor: Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00097.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).
Version: (0a2f922), last modified (81d8f79).
Edition
⟨1⟩ [sa]vachara 10 gimh(ā)na ⟨2⟩ [deya]dhama sahā bhayāya ⟨3⟩ chatadhayo mātāpi⟨4⟩tuna hitasughāya
Translation by Vincent Tournier
… in the 10th year … of the summer. An umbrella shaft: the pious gift … together with his wife, for the well-being and happiness of his parents.
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. Pages 69–70, section II.5, item 5.
[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 468, item 145, plate CXLI, item 11.
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Although the name of the ruler is missing, is possible that this inscribed umbrella shaft, like KnI0012 and KnI0263, dates from the reign of Gotamīputta Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi.