Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00115.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (2bdc778).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha nam(o) bhagavato samasaṁbudho sakamuni sidhath(o) [vākāṭicāna] visāghanena saputakena kārito ⟨2⟩ kanhilena katā paṭimāO catāri (ya?)

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sama_saṁbudho ⬦ samasabudho N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ sidhath(o)sidhatha N+vH.

⟨2⟩ paṭimāO ⬦ paṭimāE N+vH • The inverted-s shape of the final akṣara is characteristic of the O. The ending -āO moreover makes better sense as a Nom. Pl. Fem. ending than -āE. — ⟨2⟩ catāri (ya?)catāri N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! The Bhagavant, Perfectly and Completely Awakened One Sakamuni Siddhattha (Skt. Śākyamuni Siddhārtha), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son[s]. Four images were made by Kanhila.

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 7.

[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 84, plate CXXXVII, item 7, plate XL, item C, plate CXXVII, item B.