Āyāga pillar, fragment, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Fu Fan, Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00016.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (d187bc4), last modified (d187bc4).

Edition

⟨1–8⟩ [8 lost lines]

⟨9⟩ (Ā)[yuvaḍhanikaṁ] ⟨10⟩ Ā(y)[āgathabhā] ⟨11⟩ catāri deyadhama(ṁ)

Apparatus

⟨9⟩ (Ā)[yuvaḍhanikaṁ](Ā)[yuvaḍhanika] N+vH.

⟨11⟩ deyadhama(ṁ)deyadhama N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Four āyāga pillars: The pious gift … in order to increase [their?] lifespan.

Commentary

This preserves the lower part of the same text preserved in full by KnI 16.

Bibliography

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

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. Page 42, section II.1, item 2.

[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 458, item 74, plate CXXXVI, item 7.