Vedikā pillar, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00221.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (f8e3cba), last modified (a3c83bd).

Edition

⟨1⟩ p[.]tiga(ṁ)bhigāya bhikuniya veliya⟨2⟩yāy(a) pāyako sasujiko d(e)yadhaṁma

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ p[.]tiga(ṁ)bhigāya ⬦ patigaligāya P • This seems to point to a hereby unattested toponym. — ⟨1⟩ bhikuniya ⬦ bhikunīya P.

⟨1-2⟩ veliyayāy(a)cetiyayāya P • There would be a space for an akṣara at the beginning of l. 2, but we suspect an irregularity in the stone or previous damage may have dissuaded the lapicide to engrave that space. For names starting in velī- see Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥 1996, № Kuda 21, № Nasi 18 l. 1.

⟨2⟩ sasujiko ⬦ sasūjiko P. — ⟨2⟩ d(e)yadhaṁma ⬦ deya dhamma P.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Commentary

Bibliography

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

Primary

[P] 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. Item 156.