Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00114.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (8df70b8).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha bhagavaṁ samasaṁbudh⟦aṁ⟧⟨⟨o⟩⟩ kasapaṁ vākāṭicāna visākanena saputakena kār(i)⟨to⟩

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhagavaṁ samasaṁ_budho⟦ṁ⟧bhagava samasabudho N+vH • The vocalic marker o in the last syllable seems to have been added secondarily, under an anusvāra sign. — ⟨1⟩ kasapaṁ ⬦ kasapā N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ visākanena ⬦ visākena N+vH • Understand visākena. — ⟨1⟩ kār(i)⟨to⟩kār(i)[to] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! The Bhagavant, Perfectly and Completely Awakened One Kassapa (Skt. Kāśyapa), 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 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. Page 79, section II.7, item 6.

[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 83, plate CXXXVII, item 6, plate CXXVII, item A.