Buddhapāda, two fragments, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00272.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (1665824), last modified (fed0604).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [gotamip]⟨Fragment a⟩(uta)sa sir(i)v(ijaya)[sātaka]⟨Fragment b⟩[ni]sa savachara 4 gimhāna pākha 2 (di) [1+] […] ⟨2⟩ […]⟨Fragment a⟩ya budhāya ya sisi[5+]⟨Fragment b⟩(ya) sisiniA toḍhikheḍikāA pava(y)[.][…]

Apparatus

⟨2⟩ sisiniA • The meaning of this epithet, which might also occur previously in the lines is unclear. Could it correspond to Skt. svavāsinī, which in much later Kumaunī is, according to Turner 1962–1966, s.v. sisiṇī alongside sīsṇī? — ⟨2⟩ pava(y)[.] • This is likely to be restored pavayit[āya] or, perhaps less likely, pavayit[asa].

Translation by Vincent Tournier

In the 4th year of [king] Gotamīputta Siri-Vijayasātakaṇṇi, in the 2nd fortnight of summer, on the … day … [gift of] … and Buddhā, the wife (sisiṇī?), [and] ... the wife (sisiṇī?), [and] Toḍhikheḍikā, the nun (pavayitā?)

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