Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00116.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha bhagavā bodhisato Ayito Anāgato budho Upāsakena vākāḍhicāna ⟨2⟩ visāghena saputakena kārito savalokasa hitasughāca

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ vākāḍhicāna ⬦ vākāḍ(h)icāna[ṁ] N+vH.

⟨2⟩ hitasughāca • Understand hitasughāya.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! The Bhagavant, Bodhisattva Ayita (Skt. Ajita), the future Buddha, commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son[s], for the well-being and happiness of the whole world.

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. Pages 79–80, section II.7, item 8.

[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 461, item 85, plate CXXXVII, item 8, plate CXXVII, item D.