Mahābalipuram Shore Temple biruda (1/2)

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00316

Summary: An isolated biruda.

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    1Ekavīra

    Apparatus

    1 Ekavīra • The reading Ekavīraḥ seems possible, considering the other biruda inscriptions at Mahābalipuram.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    The unique hero.

    Translation into French by Emmanuel Francis

    Le héros unique.

    Commentary

    Mahalingam 1988: page 715, № 316 translates as “The unrivalled hero”.

    This appears to be a biruda of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, also attested in IP 54, 60 and 63.

    Bibliography

    First recorded in ; text and translation in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 316); encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

    Primary

    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 715, № 316. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    Srinivasan, K. R. 1975. The Dharmarāja Ratha and Its Sculptures: Mahābalipuram. New Delhi: Abhinav.
    Plate 89.
    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, № IR 64.