Kāñcīpuram, temple-name on slab, time of Mahendravarman

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00070

Summary: The name of a temple: Mahendravarmeśvaragṛha.

Hand Description:

Halanta m is used, with proto-virāma.

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    Edition

    1śrī-mahendra-va(r)mm(e)śvara-gṛhaM

    Apparatus

    1 śrīmahendrava(r)mm(e)śvaragṛhaM ◇ śrīmahendravarmm(e)śvaragṛhaM VVA

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    The glorious temple of the Lord of Mahendravarman.

    or

    The temple of the Lord of the glorious Mahendravarman.

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet and Emmanuel Francis

    Le glorieux temple de Mahendravarmeśvara.

    ou

    Le temple d’Īsvara du glorieux Mahendravarman.

    Commentary

    The lack of context hinders the identification of the Pallava Mahendravarman. But paleography could help when comparing with similar labels (see INSPallava00488-00489). Observe and compare the shape of the characters śa and ga. See ARIE argument (p. 54) and others (IP, SRB).

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, n° 31); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 70); text and translation in Brocquet 1997 (B no. 53/c); re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Sylvain Brocquet & Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the facsimile published in ARIE 1932-1933: plate I.

    Primary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 13, № 31. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 214, № 70. [siglum IP]
    Brocquet, Sylvain. 1997. “Les inscriptions sanskrites des Pallava : poésie, rituel, idéologie.” Thèse de doctorat, Paris: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.
    Page 611, № 53/c. [siglum SB]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1932-1933. Pages 8, 54, appendix B/1932–1933, № 1, plate I.
    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.
    Pages 293–294.