KnI 183. Kañcūka from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00183.

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Edition

⟨1⟩ Ayo ce(dana)vaniyo _ muḍakaseṭhikumārā ca

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ muḍakaseṭhikumārā ⬦ muḍakasaṭhikumārā N&vH • Understand -kumāro. This name is echoed in the Dīpavaṁsa 8:10, as Mūlakadeva. Note also that Mūḍaka (or perhaps rather Mūḷaka) as a place name is referred to in KnI 406. Sarma & Varaprasada Rao 1993, pp. 67–68 situate this toponym in Western Maharashtra.

Translation

The Noble Cedana, a merchant and (the Noble?) Muḍaka, the son of a guild’s chief.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in June 2025.

Primary

[N&vH] Nakanishi, Maiko & 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 104, section IV, item 1.

[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 467, item 137, plate CXLI, item 3, plate XCVIII, item B.

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