Pedestal of a standing Buddha image, Kanaganahalli stūpa
Editor: Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00118.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).
Version: (0a2f922), last modified (3b402b1).
Edition
⟨Face A⟩ ⟨A.1⟩ dāraghāḍhikehi bhagavato ⟨A.2⟩ budhasa paḍimā k¿a?⟨ā⟩rit(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. 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
The people from Dāraghāḍha commissioned this image of the Bhagavant, the Buddha. Made by Nādika, the son of the master [sculptor] Veṇhu, grandson of the master [sculptor] Assabhūti.
Bibliography
This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in May 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 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.
Secondary
Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1971. Studies in the geography of ancient and medieval India. 2nd edition revised and enlarged. Delhi, Varanasi, Patna: Motilal Banarsidass. Pages 197, 225.
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Commentary
The possible toponym Dāraghāḍha, from which the collective of donors stems, is otherwise unknown, although it brings to mind Dvārakā in Kathiawar, which is mentioned for instance in the Petavatthu and in the Periplus. See Sircar 1971, pp. 197, 225. As remarked by Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, p. 81, upajjhāya is used here not in its Buddhist meaning, but pointing to a master artisan, as in EIAD 322: caṁmakārasa nāgaUpajhayaputasa vidhikasa….