Stone chattra from Phanigiri

Stone chattra from Phanigiri author of digital edition Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier DHARMA Paris DHARMA_INSEIAD00112

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2019-2025 Stone chattra from Phanigiri Arlo Griffiths Arlo Griffiths Vincent Tournier Stefan Baums Ingo Strauch assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Chloé Chollet assistance with XML encoding and metadata verification Marine Schoettel digital humanities consultant Emmanuelle Morlock digital humanities consultant Andrew Ollett

First digital edition made by École française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris, France), realized in collaboration with the HiSoMA Research Centre (Lyon, France) and hosted by TGIR Huma-Num (France) as Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa, in 2015-2017.

Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa DHARMA_INSEIAD00112

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kānamūḷayāna ta Utaravaḍhamāne

Of Kānamūḷaya, (...), in the northern estate.

Since about half of the chattra is missing, we expect a lacuna of around 20 akṣaras between the na and the ta.

kānamūḷayānaConsidering the size of the chattra, the stūpa which it crowned must have been typologically very similar to funerary stūpas enshrining the remains of local monks at other sites. In inscriptions on such stūpas or chattras, as shown by Schopen 1991, the deceased monk is commonly referred to in the genitive plural as a mark of respect for the deceased.

Previously unpublished; edited here after autopsy of the stone.