Image of a seated Buddha, Kanaganahalli stūpa

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Edition

⟨1⟩ sidha bhagavaṁ samasaṁ_budh⟦aṁ⟧⟨⟨o⟩⟩ _ kasapaṁ _ vākāṭicāna _ visākanena saputakena kār(i)⟨to⟩

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ bhagavaṁ samasaṁ_budho⟦ṁ⟧bhagava samasabudho N+vHThe vocalic marker o in the last syllable seems to have been added secondarily, under an anusvāra sign.⟨1⟩ kasapaṁkasapā N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ visākanenavisākena N+vHUnderstand visākena.⟨1⟩ kār(i)⟨to⟩kār(i)[to] N+vH.

Translation

Success! The Bhagavant, Perfectly and Completely Awakened One Kassapa (Skt. Kāśyapa), commissioned by the upāsaka Visāgha (Skt. Viśākha) of the Vāgāḍhica family, together with his son⟨s⟩.

Bibliography

This edition, based on photographs, by Vincent Tournier. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in June 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 79, section II.7, item 6.

[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 460, item 83, plate CXXXVII, item 6, plate CXXVII, item A.