Octagonal chattra-pillar with lotus base, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00098.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ (bh)imhaṇakasa duhu⟨2⟩tuya viranikāya ⟨3⟩ deyadhamaṁ chataṁ

Apparatus

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

Translation by Vincent Tournier

An umbrella: the pious gift of Viraṇṇikā, the daughter of Bhimhaṇṇaka (Skt. Bhīṣmaṇṇaka).

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 70, section II.5, item 6.

[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 146, plate CXLI, item 12.