KnI00117 buddha image

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00117.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (4b9ed04).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha ~ namo bhegavato budhasa sākamuṇisa paḍim(ā) thāvitā muth(i)kumāra(sa) ⟨2⟩ bhājāya radhāya ⟨3⟩ sunhāya (kha)ṁdagopiya ⟨4⟩ (du)hasenakumārasa kuḍu(ṁb)i(n)[iya] ⟨5⟩ kār[i](t)[ā] (saval)[o](ka)hitasu(ghā)ya

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sidha ~ • The punctuation sign is composed of a wavy horizontal stroke under a dot. It is similar, for instance, to that following sidhaṁ in EIAD 20, l. 1. — ⟨1⟩ bhegavato ⬦ bhagavato N+vH • Understand bhagavato. — ⟨1⟩ sākamuṇisa ⬦ sakamuṇisa N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ muth(i)kumāra(sa)mathakumār(asa) N+vH.

⟨3⟩ (kha)ṁdagopiya ⬦ Iṁdagopiya N+vHNakanishi and von Hinüber 2014 comment: “The name of the daughter-in-law Indragopī can be classified as a name of an animal used as a personal name.” On other feminine names in -gopī, see for instance EIAD 647: nāgagopinikāya. See EIAD 670, l. 3: … Idāya nāganik(ā)ya gopiya.

⟨4⟩ kuḍu(ṁb)i(n)[iya]ku(ḍha)[…] N+vH • Cf. KnI0083 l. 1-2: nāgaṇakasa koḍubiniya.

⟨5⟩ kār[i](t)[ā] (saval)[o](ka)_hitasu(ghā)ya ⬦ kañā[ya] [3+] (hatasāya) N+vH • Cf. KnI0010, l. 2: savalokahi[ta](s)ughāya.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! Homage to the Bhagavant! The image of the Buddha Śākyamuni has been established. [It was] commissioned by Radhā, the wife of Muthikumāra [and by her] daughter Khandagopī (Skt. Skandagopī), the wife of Duhasenakumāra (Skt. Dṛḍhasenakumāra), for the good and well-being of the whole world.

Commentary

Bibliography

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 80, section II.7, item 9.

[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 86, plate CXXXVII, item 9, plate XXVI, item B.