Mahābalipuram Shore Temple birudas (2/2)

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00318

Summary: Isolated birudas.

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    1[śrī-bha]raś cit(r)a-kārm[mu]ka[ḥ]

    Apparatus

    1 [śrībha]raś ◇ [śrībha]raś ARIE 1959-1960 — 1 cit(r)akārm[mu]kha[ḥ] ◇ citrakārmukaḥ ARIE 1959-1960 • It is probable that m is duplicated after r.

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1The Fortune-bearer.

    1He whose quiver is wonderful.

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet and Emmanuel Francis

    1The Fortune-bearer.

    1He whose quiver is wonderful.

    Commentary

    Mahalingam 1988: page 715, № 316 translates as “The bearer of prosperity” and “The wonderful archer”.

    These appear to be birudas of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, also attested in INSPallava00054, INSPallava00060, and INSPallava00063.

    Bibliography

    First recorded in ARIE 1959-1960: page 73, appendix B/1959–1960, № 263; text and translation in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 318); re-edited here 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 1959-1960. Page 73, appendix B/1959–1960, № 263. [siglum ARIE 1959-1960]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 717, № 318. [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.
    Pages 289–290, № IR 65.