KnI00105 buddhapāda

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00105.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (0ed1ed6).

Edition

⟨1⟩ the(rā)[na] [bha](ta)b[u]dha(t)[ātā](na) Atevas(i)sa bhatasihakasapaṇadāyakasa deyadhama payapaṭ(o)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [bha](ta)b[u]dha(t)[ātā](na)[bhata] b[u]dha[tātā](na) N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Atevas(i)sa • The va is peculiarly shaped and looks like a dha. Understand atevāsisa. — ⟨1⟩ bhatasihakasapaṇadāyakasa ⬦ (bhata) s(i)hakasapa [1+] dāyakasa N+vH • Note that the reading of pa is not entirely secure, since it seems to have a curved left arm, when compared to the straighter pas in payapaṭo. Understand bhatasihasa kasapaṇadāyakasa. On the offering of kārṣāpaṇas, see KnI0127. The problematic akṣara could also be read la, and the same observation applies to KnI0106. If the tentative reading is accepted, the compound kasapaṇadāyaka could be compared to the epithet hiraṇakoṭigosatasahasahalasatasahasapadāyi used to qualify king Cāntamūla in the Ikṣvāku corpus. See, e.g. EIAD 5, ll. 4–5. In light of this interpretation, it seems reasonable to consider that the donor of KnI0105106 is the same as that of KnI0103104. See also Tournier 2020, p. 889, n. 94.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

A slab with foot[prints]: the pious gift of reverend Siṁha — the grantor of kārṣāpaṇas —, the pupil of reverend Buddhattāta.

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. Page 74, section II.6, item 3.

[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 476, item 238.