Kañcūka (lower part), Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editors: Vincent Tournier, Robert Arlt.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00145.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (96d125e), last modified (b5f7037).

Edition

⟨1⟩ kumār[o] A[yira](n)aṁdo

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ A[yira](n)aṁdo ⬦ (A)[…] N+vH • According to the photo-montage prepared by Robert Arlt, there is enough space for two akṣaras after the damaged A. MIA ayira is common in the inscriptions of Āndhra, although it is not otherwise attested at Kanaganahalli, where aya is more common.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

Commentary

The second fragment, (Poonacha 2011, № 246) was unknown to Nakanishi and von Hinüber 2014.

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. Page 91, section III.1, item 18.

[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 477, item 242, plate LXXIV, item B, plate CVII, page 477, item 246.