Octagonal pillar, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00099.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (0aa97b7), last modified (a4496c4).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (na)mo bhaga(va)to budha(sa)[…] ⟨2⟩ […](to ca) tha(bho) be dama [1+] [.]i[…] ⟨3⟩ […]kārapitaṁ sa(ṁ)gha[…] ⟨4⟩ [sat](ike)na mahāsena(date)[na]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (to ca) tha(bho) be dama ⬦ N+vH.

⟨4⟩ [sat](ike)na mahāsena(date)[na](ke)na m(ā)hisa(kasa) N+vH • My reconstruction is supported by KnI0100 and by the fragment KnI0292, l. 2, reading satikena ma(h).

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Hommage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha! … a pillar and two … were ordered to be made, by Saṅgha-…, [and] Mahāsenadatta — the Sa(ṁ)tika …

Commentary

Bibliography

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 70–71, section II.5, item 7.

[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 147, plate CXLII, item 1.