KnI00104 buddhapāda

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00104.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3bfd35d), last modified (0ed1ed6).

Edition

⟨1⟩ therānaṁ bhayatabudhatātānaṁ Atevāsisa bhayatasihasa deyadhamaṁ payapaṭo mahācetiE saha (Ac)[ā](r)[i]⟨2⟩yaUpajh(āE)[h]i [sa](ha) mātāpit(ūhi) saha va savehi Atevāsikehi savasatāna hitasughāvāhāya ||||

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhayatabudhatātānaṁ ⬦ bhayata budhatātānaṁ N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ bhayatasihasa ⬦ bhayata sihasa N+vH.

⟨1-2⟩ (Ac)[ā](r)[i]yaUpajh(āE)[h]i ⬦ (Ac)[āri]yaUpajh(ā)[Eh]i N+vH • See KnI0103.

⟨2⟩ mātāpit(ūhi)mātāpit(u)hi N+vH • The last akṣara is curiously shaped and has an additional leg to the left that makes it look rather like a si. It is possible that the engraver started copying the next akṣara sa, before attempting to modify it to form a hi. — ⟨2⟩ saha va ⬦ saha ca N+vH. — ⟨2⟩ Atevāsikehi ⬦ Atevāsinehi N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Success! A slab with foot[prints]: the pious gift at the Great Shrine of reverend Siṁha, pupil of the venerable reverend Buddhattāta, together with his teacher and preceptor, with his father and mother, and also with his pupils, leading to well-being and happiness.

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 73–74, section II.6, 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 462, item 88, plate CXXXVIII, item 2, plate XXI.