Octagonal chattra-pillar, Kanaganahalli stūpa - reign of Gotamīputta Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi, year 11

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00012.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (787e136), last modified (12c15a1).

Edition

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ || raño gotamiputasa siriyañasātakaṇisa sa(va) 10 1 ⟨2⟩ hematāna pakhe 1 diva 1 bhikhusa dhamakadhikasa bodhikayasa ⟨3⟩ chata deyadhama sahā mātāpitūhi sahā ca bhātūbhaginihi ⟨4⟩ savalokahitāya

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sidhaṁ ⬦ siddhaṁ N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! In the 11th year of King Gotamīputta Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi, in the 1st fortnight of the winter season, on the 1st day. An umbrella: the pious gift for the Dharma expounder Bodhikaya — together with his parents and with his brother[s] and sister[s] — for the well-being of the whole world.

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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 36–37, section I, item 12.

[MASI] 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 467, item 143, plate XLIV, item B, plate CXLIV, item B.