Āyāka frieze, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00017.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (0a05668).

Edition

⟨1⟩ [sidha | korugālakāna] AcariĀna bhayatasatikaṇa Atevāsiniya (pa)vaIt(ā)ya (b)udharakhitāya Ayākapaṭā Adh(ā)lakacetiyadhamaraIkadeyadhama patiṭhāpit(ā t)[i]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhayatasatikaṇa ⬦ bhayata sat(ikana) N+vH • Read -kana, as in KnI0018. — ⟨1⟩ (pa)vaIt(ā)ya ⬦ (pa)vajit(ā)ya N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Adh(ā)laka- ⬦ N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ -dhamaraIka- ⬦ -dhamarajaka N+vHTournier 2020 understands this as forming a compound with the following deyadhama, but -dhamaraIka could also be understood as un uninflected locative. — ⟨1⟩ patiṭhāpit(ā t)[i]patiṭhāpit(ā) [1×] […] N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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 42–43, section II.1, item 3.

[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 457, item 71, plate CXXXVI, item 4, plate XXV, plate CXXII.

Tournier, Vincent. 2020. “Buddhist lineages along the Southern Routes: on two nikāyas active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In: Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Edited by Vincent Eltschinger, Vincent Tournier and Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Pages 880–882.