Kūram, Keśavaperumāḷ, pillar inscription

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00038

Summary: Name of a Pallava king.

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    1Aśrī-pallava-
    2Bmā-rācaṉ
    3[3*] māmalla(ṉ)

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    The glorious great Pallava king [...] Māmalla.

    or

    Prosperity!

    The great Pallava king [...] Māmalla.

    Commentary

    1 It is not clear whether śrī is an auspicious beginning or an honorific prefix.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 (SII 7, no. 42); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP n° 38); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

    Primary

    Subrahmanya Aiyer, K.V. 1932. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VII: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 7. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
    Page 16, № 42. [siglum KVSA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 137, № 38. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1899-1900. Page 50, appendix B/1900, № 39. • renamed 39-A, when edited by Subrahmanya Aiyer 1932 as he realized that more than one inscription was registered under number 39. [siglum ARIE 1899-1900]

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