Kanheri Cave 3 Right Pillar Inscription, Time of Sāmisiriyaña Sātakaṇi EpiDoc Encoding Kelsey Martini Intellectual authorship of edition Kelsey Martini Vincent Tournier DHARMA Munich DHARMA_INSKI00005

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raño gotamiputasa sāmisiriyaña sotakaṁṇissa saṁvacharegi mhāpakhe paṁcame 5 divase vāṇijakehi Unh ṇṭhayaṁ Upaṁnehi gā khātiyehi bhātūhi gajasenena gajamitena ca kapaṭhāyiṁ cetiyagharaṁ Ācariyānaṁ nikāyasa bhādāya ṇīyānaṁ parigahe patiṭhāpitaṁ mā tāpitūnaṁ Abhatītānaṁ̌kālakatānaṁ pūjāya kuṭuṁbinīnaṃbālakāṇaṁ bālikāṇaṃ savatasa bhāgineyānaṁ nīkasabadhi vagasa ca AgapaṭiAṁsīya savvasattānaṁ ca hitasukhāya hetu Etha ca navakaṁmi kā pavajito therā bhadaṁtaAcalo bhadaṁtaya khapālo bhadaṁtavijayamito bhadaṁtabodhiko bhadaṁtadhamapālo Upāsako ca negamo Āṇada puto Apareṇuko samāpitā Ācariyānaṁ therāṇaṁ bhadaṁtaseḍalānaṁ sisena Uparakhitena bha daṁtabodhikena kata selavaḍhakīhi nāyakami sehi kaḍhicakehi mahākaṭakehi khamadurasu kinā ca mīṭhikena

raño The top of the akṣara is missing. There may have been an anusvāra on top, check KI 25 for parallel, although KnI has systematically raño. sāmisiriyañasotakaṁṇissa sāmisiriyañasa sotakaṁṇissa sāmisiriyañasa sotakaṁṇissa sāmisiriyañasa sotakaṁṇissa This reconstruction is supported by comparison to KI 25, l. 1. ASWI V and Gokhale divide this compound into two genitives, but this runs against the practice of Sātavāhana titles, as attested also, in the title of this very king, in KnI 12 and EIAD 534. Understand -sātakaṁṇissa. saṁvacharegimhāpakhe saṁvachare gimhapakhe saṁvachare gimhapakhe saṁvacharegimhapakhe Unh Utū Utū Utū ṇṭhayaṁ ṇuya ṇuya ṇuya kapaṭhāyiṁ cetiyagharaṁ kapaṭhāyi cetiya kapaṭhāyi cetiya kapaṭhāyi cetiya °abhatītānaṁ̌kālakatānaṁ Abhatītānaṁ Abhatītānaṁ bālakāṇaṁ bālikāṇaṃ bālakānaṁ bālikānaṁ bālakānaṁ bālikānaṁ nīkasabadhivagasa nikāyasa nātivagasa nikāyasa nātivagasa AgapaṭiAṁsīya Agapaṭi°Asīya AgapaṭiAsīya ca hitasukhāya hitasukhāya hitasukhāya pavajito Understand pavajitā. bhadaṁtayakhapālo bhādaṁtagahalā bhadaṁtagahala The reading and reconstruction is tentative. A Yakṣapāla is attested in IBH, Gaya no. 1, l. 2. Alternative reconstruction rakhapālo? Aṇadaputo Anadaputo āṇadaputo Reconstruction based on KI025. bhadaṁtaseḍalānaṁ bhadataseUṁlānaṁ bhadataseUṁlānaṁ bhadataseUṁlānaṁ Uparakhitena Uparakhitana Uparakhitana Uparakhitana mīṭhikena mīṭhikenā mīṭhikenā mīṭhikenā

(l. 1-3) On the day… on the fifth — 5 — fortnight of the hot season in the year…of the king Gotamīputasa Sāmi-Siriyaññasātakaṇṇi…(l. 4-7) by the merchants…by the upaṁnas (?)…by the kṣatriya brothers… Gajasena (and) Gajamita…(l. 9-10) a cetiya lasting for a kalpa…was established in the possession of the teachers of the Bhādāyanīyas. (l. 10-15) [This is] for the worship of [their] departed parents whose time has passed, [also] assigning a primary share [of the ensuing merit] for their wives, sons, daughters, sister’s sons, and the whole group of their own relatives; [this is further] the cause for the welfare and happiness of all beings.

(l. 15-19) And with respect to this [construction], the officers for construction-cum-renovation (navakammika)—renunciant venerable monks [consisting of] reverend Acala, reverend Yakkhapāla, reverend Vijayamitta and reverend Bodhika—as well as the lay-follower—the member of a corporation, son of Ānanda—Apareṇuka have been appointed.

(l.19-23) Made by reverend Bodhika, Uparakkhita (?)—pupil of the venerable master, reverend Sevāla—with the stone workers (selavaḍhaki) from Mahakaṭa, the nāyakamisas, the kaḍhicakas, [namely] Khadaraki and Mīṭhika.

B+B (and subsequently M and G) insert far too many akṣaras at the end of l. 2-11, the inscription is not that fragmentary.

kapaṭhāyiṁ ceti[ya](gharaṃ). Compare Th 1190ab: majjhe sāgarasmiṁ tiṭṭhanti vimānā kappaṭhāyino. For a similar idea expressed in the later inscription from Ajanta cave 26, see Tournier 2020: 206.

Bhoir (1999: 73) suggests that mahakaṭakehi in l. 22 “can easily be identified with Mahad taluka headquarter in Raigarh district of Konkan”. This is an interesting interpretation as place names ending in -kaṭa are quite common in early inscriptions. He further states “This place name is further mentioned as ‘Mahakataka Ahara’ in the inscription of Traikutakas”. This is presumably in reference to SIDDHAM IN00620.9-10 mahākaṭāhāra-pharataṭikā-ntarggata-pañcāmalaka-grāma-nivāsinas (https://siddham.network/inscription/traikutaka-grant-year-284/).

75 4 74-76 28 47-51 5 lii 561 19, 21-22, 25-26 568-569 91, 136, 147 396 186 55 47, 50-53 47, 51 fn. 20 73 90-91 25, 74-75 65 396