Kāñcipuram, Ekāmbaranātha, fragment (1of 2)

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00314

Summary: Fragment comprising a biruda (?).

Hand Description:

Ornate Grantha script.

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    Edition

    1[...] lanaḥ | nṛpa-c[ū]ḷāmaṇi[...]

    Apparatus

    1 [...]lanaḥ | ◇ ARIE 1939-1943 — 1 °c[ū]ḷāmaṇi ◇ °cū(ḍā)maṇi ARIE 1939-1943

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    [...] the best among kings [...]

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    [...] le meilleur d’entre les rois [...]

    Commentary

    This fragment is possibly to be considered with another fragment (INSPallava00358) as two parts of a single inscription.

    According to Mahalingam 1988: page xc Nṛpacūḷāmaṇi is probably an epithet of Mahendravarman I. The palaeography however points towards one of his successors.

    Bibliography

    First recorded in ARIE 1939-1943; text in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 314); re-edited for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), based on the ASI estampage, consulted in Mysore with the kind permission of the Director of Epigraphy.

    Primary

    ARIE 1939-1943. Pages 69, 272, appendix B/1939–1940, № 347. [siglum ARIE 1939-1943]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Pages xc, 713, № 314. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    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 292, № IR 72.