Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00111.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (0945e9d).

Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavā budho vesabhū vāgāḍhicanaṁ visaghena saputakena kāritā selavaḍhakisa Āsadevisa ⟨2⟩ panatukena samināgasa nātukena māḍhasa putena rāyāmacena bodhigutena ⟨3⟩ kato

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kāritā • Understand kārito.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

The Bhagavant, Buddha Vessabhū (Skt. Viśvabhū), 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.

Commentary

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 77–78, section II.7, 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 460, item 82, plate CXXXVII, item 5, plate CXXVIII, item B.