Taḷavāṉūr, time of Mahendravarman I

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00019

Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Śatrumalleśvarālaya by Śatrumalla (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.

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    Anuṣṭubh
    1daṇḍānata-narendreṇa
    2narendreṇaiṣa kāritaḥ
    3śatrumallena śaile ’smi¡N!
    4śatrumalleśvarālayaḥ

    Apparatus

    1 ’smi¡N! ◇ ’smi¿n?⟨ñ⟩ EH •

    Translation by Hultzsch 1913-1914

    Narendra Śatrumalla, who has humbled kings by [his] army, caused to be made on this hill this [temple named] Śatrumalleśvarālaya.

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet and Emmanuel Francis

    Le souverain dont l’armée fait plier les souverains fit construire,
    Śatrumalla, sur cette colline ce temple de Śatrumalleśvara.

    Commentary

    See also INSPallava00020, a probably later Tamil foundation inscription of the same cave-temple.

    1daṇḍānata. Interpretation? See note in B.

    2narendra. Identification? See note in B.

    Bibliography

    Edited and translated in Hultzsch 1913–1914, with a facsimile (EI 12, no. 27/A); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 19); text and translation in Filliozat 1984: page 105 and in Brocquet 1997 (B no. 16); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2009).

    Primary

    Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1913–1914. “Ramatirtham Plates of Indravarman.” EI 12: 133–36.
    Page 320, № A. [siglum EH]
    Filliozat, Pierre-Sylvain. 1984. “Les Inscriptions Sanskrites Du Roi Pallava Mahendravarman Ier.” Bulletin des Études Indiennes 2: 99–116.
    [siglum PSF]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 97, № 19. [siglum IP]
    Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
    Pages 465–466, № 24. [siglum SB]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1904-1905. Pages 32, 39, appendix B/1905, № 51.
    Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-Temples of the Pallavas. Architectural Survey of Temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
    Page 76.
    Francis, Emmanuel. 2013. Le discours royal dans l’Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome I : Introduction et sources. Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters.
    Page 272.
    Francis, Emmanuel. 2017. Le discours royal dans l’Inde du Sud ancienne : inscriptions et monuments Pallava, IVème-IXème siècles. Tome II : Mythes dynastiques et panégyriques. Publications de l’Institut orientaliste de Louvain 64. Louvain-la-Neuve; Paris: Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste; Peeters.
    Page 512.