Slab, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa
Editor: Vincent Tournier.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00315.
Hand description:
Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.
Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).
Version: (3d490f2), last modified (8b7d6f5).
Edition
⟨1⟩ siddha(ṁ) raño vāseṭh(ī)putasa sirisā(da)[kaṇisa] ⟨2⟩ (pa)vajitena nāgabu(dh)i(n)[ā ]) [2×] (raI)] [1×] de [.]i[…] ⟨3⟩ yakh[i]yāya [2×] […]
Apparatus
⟨1⟩ siddha(ṁ) ⬦ siddham NR; sidhaṃ N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ vāseṭh(ī)putasa ⬦ vasiṭhiputasa NR; vāseṭhiputasa N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ sirisā(da)[kaṇisa] ⬦ sirisata NR; siri s(āta)[kaṇisa] N+vH • See KnI0010, l. 1: s(i)ris(ā)dakaṇi(sa).
⟨2⟩ [2×] (raI)] [1×] de [.]i ⬦ Antevāsiniya bhikhuṇiyā NR; Atevāsiniya bhikhuniyā N+vH • The reading is unclear, but the reconstruction suggested by Nagaraja Rao 1985 and accepted in later publications is impossible and, as stressed by Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014, pp. 19–20, it “does not make sense.”
Translation by Vincent Tournier
Bibliography
This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in August 2025.
Primary
[NR] Nagaraja Rao, M. S. 1985. “Brāhmī inscriptions and their bearing on the great stūpa at Sannati.” In: Indian epigraphy: Its bearing on the history of art. Edited by Frederick M. Asher and Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH; American Institute of Indian Studies, pp. 41–45. Page 41, item 1, plate 55.
Sarma, I. Karthikeya and J. Varaprasada Rao. 1993. Early Brāhmī inscriptions from Sannati. New Delhi: Harman. [URL]. Page 75, item A.2.
[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. Pages 19–20, item B.
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