Drum slab, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00201.

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Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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⟨1⟩ […]sa bhaḍākārikasa mak(o)samasa dāna

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⟨1⟩ […]sa bhaḍākārikasa ⬦ sabhaḍākārikasa N+vH • The editors note: “It is not certain, but likely that the beginning of the inscription is preserved. Sabhaḍākāra might be a place name.” However, if one takes the first sa as the Gen. Sg. ending of a lost word, bhaḍākārika may be satisfactorily understood on its own as a straightforward equivalent of Skt. bhaṇḍāgārika, meaning “keeper of the storehouse.” This title may be either a monastic title—attested for instance in a list of 13 offices in the Cullavagga of the Pāli Vinaya—or an administrative one. See, respectively, Silk 2008, p. 106, p. 171; Sircar 1966, s.v. bhaṇḍāgārika. As far as I know, this is the earliest epigraphic instance of this title. Unfortunately, the present context does not allow us to understand whether the donor was a monk or a royal officer. Cf. Tournier 2020, p. 880, n. 66. — ⟨1⟩ […]mak(o)samasa • The element maka- is also met as first element of a proper name, makabudhi in EIAD 305.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in July 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 111, section V.2, item 7.

[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 456, item 58, plate CXXXIV, item 11.

Secondary

Silk, Jonathan A. 2008. Managing monks: Administrators and administrative roles in Indian buddhist monasticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 106, page 171.

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1966. Indian epigraphical glossary. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Buddhist lineages along the Southern Routes: on two nikāyas active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In: Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Edited by Vincent Eltschinger, Vincent Tournier and Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Page 880, note 66.

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