KnI 99. Octagonal pillar fragment from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00099.

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSKnI00099.xml.

Version: 2026-08-03 20:48 (d1750c9), last modified 2026-07-18 17:55 (3a05cfa).

Edition

⟨1⟩ (na)mo bhaga(va)to _ budha(sa)[…]

⟨2⟩ […](to ca) tha(bho) be dam(u)[r](ī)[…]

⟨3⟩ […]kārapitaṁ _ sa(ṁ)gha[…]

⟨4⟩ [sat](ike)na mahāsena(date)[na]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (to ca) tha(bho) be dam(u)[r](ī) ⬦ (toda)thuthibadama N&vH • The tentative reading dam(u)[r](ī) may be compared to damurā, occurring on several floor slabs from Kesanapalli, see EIAD 231, 233, 234. The derivation of this term remains unclear.

⟨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

Hommage to the Bhagavant, the Buddha! … a pillar and two floor slabs (?) were ordered to be made, by Saṅgha-…, ⟨and⟩ Mahāsenadatta—the Sa(ṁ)tika …

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in June 2025.

Primary

[N&vH] Nakanishi, Maiko & 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.

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