Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa
Editor: Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00109.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).
Version: (e852375), last modified (8ae9439).
Edition
⟨1⟩ bhagavā bu⟨⟨dho⟩⟩ vivasi Upāsakena vāgāḍhicānaṁ visāghena kārapito saputakena sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa) ⟨2⟩ Āsadevasa panatukena samināgasa nātukena māḍhasa putena rayāmacena bodhigutena kato
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa) ⬦ selaḍhaki(sa) N+vH • rightly commenting “… the word ¿selaḍhikasa? is a mistake for selavaḍhakisa.”
Translation by Vincent Tournier
The Bhagavant, Buddha Vivassi (Skt. Vipaśyin), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son[s]. Made by Bodigutta the royal officer, the son of Māḍha, grandson of Sāmināga, and great-grandson of Āsadeva, the sculptor.
Bibliography
This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in May 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 76–77, section II.7, item 1.
[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 459, item 80, plate CXXXVII, item 3, plate CXXVIII, item A.
Secondary
Lielukhine2003_01
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]. Page 870.
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On the meaning of amacca (attested in KnI 86) and rājāmacca in early epigraphy, see the preliminary considerations of Lielukhine2003_01. That an artist is here provided with this distinguished status is not unheard of. Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥 1996, № Sanchi 384, records the donation of the personal foreman (āvesani) of King Siri-Sātakaṇṇi. On the title āvesani, see also Tournier 2020, p. 870.