Pedestal of a Buddha image, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00118.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (0aa97b7), last modified (4ac16ad).

Edition

⟨Face A⟩ ⟨A.1⟩ dāraghāḍ(hi)kehi bhagavato ⟨A.2⟩ budhasa paḍimā karit(ā)⟨Face B⟩ ⟨B.1⟩ [A](s)[a]bhūtina Upajhāyāna natukena veṇh(u)na Upajhāyāna ⟨B.2⟩ putena nādikeṇa kato

Apparatus

⟨B.1⟩ [A](s)[a]bhūtina ⬦ (sabhū)tina N+vH • Cf. KnI0054: Asabhūtino. — ⟨B.1⟩ Upajhāyāna ⬦ Upajhāyena N+vH • As pointed out by the previous editors, upajhāya means here a master craftsman, as in EIAD 322, l. 1. The fact that both strings -bhūtina upajhāyāna and veṇh(u)na upajhāyāna are in the Gen. Pl. is a clear use of pluralis maiestatis, and might point to Nādika’s ancestors to be departed. — ⟨B.1⟩ veṇh(u)na ⬦ ve(nena) N+vH • Cf. EIAD 49, l. 2: veṇhusiri(ṇo). — ⟨B.1⟩ Upajhāyāna ⬦ Upajh(āy)[e]na N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Commentary

Only the side of the pedestal corresponding to part B Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, ll. 1a-1b was documented by Vincent Tournier in 02/2020.

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. Pages 80–81, section II.7, item 10.

[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 87, plate CXXXVIII, item 1a, item 1b.