Āyāga frieze, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00147.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ [sidha] (bo)(h)ik(ā)vihārakā(ṇ)a therāna bhayatahaghāna Atevā(sisa) kanhasirisa salohitāE ca (sa)b[u]dhajāya (de)yadha(ṁ)ma Ama(p)i[tūhi ca sava](sa)[na ca h](i)[tasughatha]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ [sidha][siddha] N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ (bo)(h)ik(ā)vihārakā(ṇ)a ⬦ (ba)(h)i(la)vihā(ra)kāna N+vH • who comment: “The name of the monastery is not entirely clear. A reading baḍ(h)ayivihāra cannot be ruled out; baḍha-° is more likely than baḍa-°. This is the only name of a monastery identifiable in the inscriptions from Kanaganahalli. The “bodhikavihāra” (MASI, p. 324b) does not exist.” — ⟨1⟩ therāna ⬦ therā(ṇ)a N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ bhayatahaghāna ⬦ bhayata haghāna N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Atevā(sisa)Atevā[si](sa) N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ (de)yadha(ṁ)ma ⬦ (de)yadhama N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ Ama(p)i[tūhi _]Am(āp)i […] N+vH. — ⟨1⟩ [sava](sa)[na ca _ h](i)[tasughatha][…](na)[…] N+vH • This tentative reconstruction, based on the parallel in KnI0008 — with which this inscription also shares the rare compound Amāpitūhi — is consistent with the number of missing akṣaras.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

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 91–92, section III.2, 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 457, item 69, plate CXXXVI, item 2, plate XXXIV, item A, plate CXXV, items D-F.