Octagonal pillar, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00101.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ mahāvinaseli(y)[āna]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahāvinaseli(y)[āna]mahāvinase(pa)[.]i N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

… of the Mahāvinaseliyas …

Commentary

Inscription engraved on the opposite side of the same pillar bearing KnI0267.

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 71–72, section II.5, item 9.

Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Buddhist lineages along the Southern Routes: on two nikāyas active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In: Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Edited by Vincent Eltschinger, Vincent Tournier and Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Pages 870–871.