Fragment of a base or plinth, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00278.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (fed0604).

Edition

⟨1⟩ […] [1×] bodhirukhapeḍhikā c(e)tiA [1×] […]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bodhirukhapeḍhikā • The substantive peḍhikā (then spelt peḍhīkā) is also found in composition in KnI0289, l. 1, and in KnI0312, l. 2. Cf. AMg peḍhiyā = Skt. pīṭhikā (see also pīṭhī), meaning “seat, base, pedestal”. See, for instance, NWS, s.v. Sircar 1966, s.v. gives “platform”. Could this point architecturally to a base? On the stool being mentioned in the context of Awakening, see for instance DN-a I.57-58.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Plinth of the bodhi-tree ... [at?] the ... shrine.

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