Paṉaimalai, cave, eulogy, time of Narasiṁhavarman II

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00063

Summary: A sanskrit verse in praise of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, wishing him a long reign.

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Ornate Grantha script.

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    Anuṣṭubh
    1rāja-si⟨ṁ⟩ho raṇa-jayaḥ
    2śrī-bharaś citra-kārmuka⟨ḥ⟩
    E3ka-vīraś ciram pātu{ḥ}
    śi4va-cū¡ḷ!ā-maṇir mmahīM

    Apparatus

    1 rāja-si⟨ṁ⟩ho ◇ rāja-siṁho EH; rāja-siho NMG
    2 citrakārmuka⟨ḥ⟩ ◇ citrakārmuka⟨ḥ |⟩ EH •
    3 pātu{ḥ} ◇ pātu EH; pātī NMG

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    May Rājasiṁha (the lion among kings) Raṇajaya (the victorious one among kings)
    Śrībhara (the Fortune-bearer) Citrakārmuka (he whose quiver is a wonder)
    Ekavīra (the unique hero) Śivacūḍāmaṇi (he who has Śiva as diadem) protect the earth for long.

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet

    Puisse Rājasiṁha, le vainqueur au combat,
    Celui qui apporte la prospérité, celui qui possède un arc resplendissant,
    Le héros unique, longtemps protéger la terre,
    Lui qui porte Śiva comme diadème !

    Commentary

    The same verse is found in two other inscriptions of Narasiṁhavarman II. See INSPallava00054 (stanza 12) and INSPallava00060 (stanza 3).

    Bibliography

    Edited in Hultzsch 1890 (SII 1, no. 31); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 63); text and translation in Brocquet 1997 (B no. 47); re-edited by Marxia Gandhi, Padmavathy, and Swaminathan 2011 (SII 30, no. 266); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on autopsy and photographs (2011).

    Primary

    Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian Inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from Stone and Copper-Plate Edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot District, and Other Parts of the Madras Presidency, Chiefly Collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 24, № 31. [siglum EH]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 203, № 63. [siglum IP]
    Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
    Page 586, № 45. [siglum SB]
    Marxia Gandhi, N., A. Padmavathy & S. Swaminathan. 2011. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XXX: Inscriptions Collected during the Year 1915. South Indian Inscriptions 30. New Delhi; Chennai: Archaeological Survey of India; Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu.
    Page 247, № 266. [siglum NMG]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1915-1916. Page 61, appendix B/1915, № 618. [siglum ARIE 1915-1916]
    Srinivasan, K. R. 1964. Cave-Temples of the Pallavas. Architectural Survey of Temples 1. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India.
    Page 110.
    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 289.