Memorial stone, fragment, Kanaganahalli/Sannati

Editors: Vincent Tournier, Andrew Ollett.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00325.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

Version: (3d490f2), last modified (3ff318a).

Edition

⟨1⟩ mahānasakava[…]

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ mahānasakava ⬦ mahānasukav(o) N+vH.

Translation by Vincent Tournier and Andrew Ollett

Of the brahmin (mahāna-, cf. Prakrit/Ardhamagadhi māhaṇa-) Kava- …

Commentary

Bibliography

This edition by Vincent Tournier and Andrew Ollett. Encoded in XML by Fu Fan in August 2025.

Primary

[S+VR] Sarma, I. Karthikeya and J. Varaprasada Rao. 1993. Early Brāhmī inscriptions from Sannati. New Delhi: Harman. [URL]. Page 99, item E.5.

[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 113–114, section VI, item 2.

[H] Howell, J. R. 1995. Excavations at Sannathi, 1986–1989. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India 93. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India. Page 84.