Large slab, reign of Vāsiṭṭhīputta Siri-Puḷumāvi, year 35, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00008.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (169e432).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha || na(mo) bhagavato samasabudhasa Adhālakamahā⟨2⟩ce(t)iyasa (ra)ño vāseṭhiputasiripulumāvisa ⟨3⟩ savachare 30 5 gi(m)h[ā]na pakhe 2 10 korukulana ⟨4⟩ bhikhuniya dhamasiriyāya Agarik(o) paṭasa⟨5⟩tharo ca deyadhama saha A(mā)p(itu)hi saha ca me ⟨6⟩ upajāEhi bhayatava(ra)nabhutihi sahi ca bhayata⟨7⟩(s)ihehi savasatāna ca hitasughatha

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sidha ⬦ sidha N+vH; siddha F.

⟨2⟩ Adhālakamahāce(t)iyasa ⬦ śudhalakamahāce(t)iyasa F; Adh(ā)lakamahāce[t]iyasa N+vH. — ⟨2⟩ vāseṭhiputasiripulumāvisa ⬦ vāseṭhi(p)utasiripulumāvisa F; vāseṭhi(p)uta siri pulumāvisa N+vH.

⟨3⟩ gi(m)h[ā]na ⬦ (gimhana) F; gi[m]h[ā]na N+vH.

⟨4⟩ bhikhuniya ⬦ bhikhuniye F; bhikhuniye N+vH.

⟨4-5⟩ Agarik(o) paṭasatharo ⬦ Akhar(i)kapaṭa satharo F; Agarak(o) paṭasatharo N+vH • The i is marked by a vertical wave, instead of a semi-circular stroke. This unusual shape is explained by the limited space left by the long descender of the akṣara ka in the preceding line. Unusual i and ī markers, adapting to similar constraints, may be observed elsewhere, for instance in EIAD 40 (Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥 1996, № Naga 19), ll. 7 (in ) and 8 (in ni).

⟨5⟩ A(mā)p(itu)hi ⬦ A(māpitu)hi F; A(māpitū)hi N+vH.

⟨6⟩ bhayatava(ra)nabhutihi ⬦ bhayatava(ra)nabhutihi F; bhayata va(ra)nabhutihi N+vH.

⟨6-7⟩ sahi ca bhayata(s)ihehi ⬦ saha ca bhayata (s)ihehi F; saha ca bhayata(s)ihehi N+vH.

⟨7⟩ savasatāna ⬦ savasatāna N+vH; savasa(ta)na F.

Translation

Commentary

Bibliography

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. Pages 31–33, section I, item 8.

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 458, item 75, plate CXXXVI, figure 8, plate CXLIV, item A.

Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Stairway to heaven and the path to buddhahood: Donors and their aspirations in 5th/6th-century Ajanta.” In: Mārga: Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions. Vol. I. Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17–18, 2015. Edited by Cristina Pecchia and Vincent Eltschinger. Vienna: Verlag der Österreischischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 177–248.

[F] Falk, Harry. 2009. “Two Dated Sātavāhana Epigraphs.” IIJ 52, pp. 197–206.