Lower drum slab, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00196.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (e852375), last modified (d3fb8cf).

Edition

⟨1⟩ gahapatino viḍaganāgilasa putasa gahapatino Upāsa(kasa) (b)[o](dh)[ig](ū)tasa[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ viḍaganāgilasa ⬦ viniganāgilasa N+vH • The reading of the second akṣara by the previous editors seems influenced by the fact that the akṣara rests on a horizontal stroke. That this is a ḍa is confirmed by its unambiguous tracing in KnI0095. — ⟨1⟩ (b)[o](dh)[ig](ū)tasa ⬦ paya [1+] tasa N+vH • This reading is supported by the closely parallel text of KnI0198.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

… of the upāsaka, the notable Bodhigutta, the son of the notable Viḍanāgila ...

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. Page 109, section V.2, item 1.