Memorial stone, Kanaganahalli/Sannati

Editors: Vincent Tournier, Andrew Ollett.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSKnI00342.

Hand description:

Language: Middle Indo-Aryan.

Repository: Satavahana (tfb-satavahana-epigraphy).

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

Edition

⟨1⟩ muḍāṇa mahāgāmiku ⟨2⟩ mārasa Otikasa ⟨3⟩ bhaṭibālikāya ⟨4⟩ Ahimarikāya ⟨5⟩ purisadatāya

Apparatus

⟨3-5⟩ bhaṭibālikāya Ahimarikāya purisadatāya • Cf. EIAD 670, l. 1: Ahimar(i)kāna bhaṭibā(l)ikāya mah(ī)pūrisadatāya.

Translation by Vincent Tournier and Andrew Ollett

Of Purisadattā (Puruṣadattā), the ahimarikā and the noble daughter bhaṭibālikā of Otika, the mahāgāmikumāra of the Muḍas.

Commentary

Bibliography

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

Primary

ARIE 1966-1967. Annual report on Indian epigraphy for 1966-67. Edited by G. S. Gai. Mysore: Chief Epigraphist [ASI], 1972. Item B.223.

Nagaraja Rao, M. S. 1985. “Brāhmī inscriptions and their bearing on the great stūpa at Sannati.” In: Indian epigraphy: Its bearing on the history of art. Edited by Frederick M. Asher and Govind Swamirao Gai. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH; American Institute of Indian Studies, pp. 41–45. Page 42, item 7, plate 61.

Sarma, I. Karthikeya and J. Varaprasada Rao. 1993. Early Brāhmī inscriptions from Sannati. New Delhi: Harman. [URL]. Page 84, item B.5, plates 17-A.