Drum slab, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00067.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (5615236).

Edition

⟨1⟩ p(o)kuḍurakasa yakhasa dhamaca[kadā]na

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ p(o)kuḍurakasa ⬦ pekuṇirakasa N+vH • The editors note: “The name of the Yakṣa, which is read erroneously Pōkōtūraka in MASI, does not seem to be known from other sources.” Once the correct reading p(o)kuḍurakasa is established, it becomes clear that this is the same toponym known from KnI0064 (where it also occurs along with māhiseka), and that yakha must, contextually, be the proper name of the donor.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Commentary

The inscriptions is engraved above KnI0094, in smaller and more shallow letters.

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 58–59, section II.3, item 5.

[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 455, item 51, plate CXXXIV, item 5.