Octagonal pillar, fragments, Kanaganahalli stūpa

Editor: Vincent Tournier.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00263.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (f7386a1).

Edition

⟨1⟩ ⟨Fragment a⟩[…]siriyanasātaka(ṇi)[sa saṁvachare] [1+] ⟨Fragment b⟩gimhā pakh(e) 6 ⟨2⟩ [sati]⟨Fragment a⟩(ka)na mahadatasa [dāna cha]⟨Fragment b⟩ta mahācetiye ||||

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ siriyanasātaka(ṇi)[sa saṁvachare]siriyana sātakaṇi P. — ⟨1⟩ gimhā pakh(e) 6 ⬦ gimha pakha 5 P.

⟨2⟩ [sati](ka)na mahadatasa [dāna]ni mehadatasa P • Compare KnI0011. — ⟨2⟩ [cha]ta mahācetiye ⬦ ta mahācetiye P.

Translation by Vincent Tournier

… In the … year of [King Gotamīputta] Siri-Yaññasātakaṇṇi, in the 6th fortnight of summer: an umbrella for the Great Shrine, [as gift] of Mahādatta of the Sa(ṁ)tika [family].

Commentary

Bibliography

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

Primary

[P] 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. Item 255, item 254.