Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00112.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha bhagavā samasabudho kausadho Upāsakena vākāṭicāna visākhena saputakena kāripit(o)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ kausadho ⬦ kosadho N+vH • See also Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 14: “[E]ven the name of the Buddha Kakosa(ṁ)dho is miswritten as Kosadho”. The reading kausadho is certain, since the additional loop to the right of the vocalic marker -o is clearly visible. This may be understood as an alternative way to render kaUsadho, corresponding to Buddhist Sanskrit krakutsanda. See also the Gāndharī name Kosudha, coexisting alongside Kosuda and Kravasudha in in the Library of Congress scroll of the Bahubudhagasutra. See Tournier 2017, p. 200; Salomon2018_01.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! The Bhagavant, Buddha Kausudha (Skt. Krakutsanda), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son[s].

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. Page 78, section II.7, item 4.

[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 78, plate CXXXVII, item 1, plate CXXVIII, item C.

Secondary

Tournier, Vincent. 2017. La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva. Monographies 195. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient. Page 200.

Salomon2018_01