KnI 109. Image of a seated Buddha from the Kanaganahalli stūpa

Author of digital edition: Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan (pra) [Southern Brāhmī (other) (brāhmī_southern_other)].

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00109.

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Version: 2026-07-18 18:38 (a883987), last modified 2026-07-18 18:38 (a883987).

Edition

⟨1⟩ bhagavā bu⟨⟨dho⟩⟩ vivasi _ Upāsakena _ vāgāḍhicānaṁ _ visāghena _ kārapito _ saputakena sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa)

⟨2⟩ Āsadevasa _ panatukena _ samināgasa _ nātukena _ māḍhasa putena rayāmacena bodhigutena kato

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ sela⟨va⟩ḍhaki(sa) ⬦ selaḍhaki(sa) N&vH • rightly commenting “… the word ¿selaḍhikasa? is a mistake for selavaḍhakisa.”

Translation

The Bhagavant, Buddha Vivassi (Skt. Vipaśyin), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son⟨s⟩. Made by Bodigutta the royal officer, the son of Māḍha, grandson of Sāmināga, and great-grandson of Āsadeva, the sculptor.

Commentary

On the meaning of amacca (attested in KnI 86) and rājāmacca in early epigraphy, see the preliminary considerations of Lielukhine2003_01. That an artist is here provided with this distinguished status is not unheard of. Tsukamoto Keishō 塚本啓祥 1996, № Sanchi 384, records the donation of the personal foreman (āvesani) of King Siri-Sātakaṇṇi. On the title āvesani, see also Tournier 2020, p. 870.

Bibliography

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

Primary

[N&vH] Nakanishi, Maiko & 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 76–77, section II.7, item 1.

[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 459, item 80, plate CXXXVII, item 3, plate CXXVIII, item A.

Secondary

Lielukhine2003_01

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 Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger & Marta Sernesi. Series Minor 89. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, pp. 859–912. [URL]. Page 870.

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