Octagonal pillar, fragment cut vertically, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00100.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (0a2f922), last modified (938a92f).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [3+] [1×] [11+] [1×] [13+] ⟨2⟩ satikena mahāsenadatena k[u]māradatena (b)[ā](l)[i]kāya ca viraṁnik[āya] ⟨3⟩ saval(o)kahita(s)[ughāya]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ (b)[ā](l)[i]kāya ⬦ (bodhi)kāya N+vH. — ⟨2⟩ viraṁnik[āya]v[i]ranik[āya] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

[a gift] … by Mahāsenadatta—the Sa(ṁ)tika—, Kumāradatta and [his] daughter Viraṇṇikā, for the welfare and happiness 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 71, section II.5, item 8.

[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 148, plate CXLII, item 2.