Mahābalipuram Shore Temple, Varāha’s birudas

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00381

Summary: A series of birudas.

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    1aśrī-rāja-siṁhaḥ śrī-raṇa-jayaḥ śrī-(bh)araḥ bśrī-citra-kārmmukaḥ

    Apparatus

    1 śrī-(bh)araḥ ◇ śrī-dharaḥ ARIE 1990-1991

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    The glorious lion among kings, the glorious victorious one in fight, the Fortune-bearer; the glorious one with a wonderful quiver.

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet

    Le glorieux lion d’entre les rois, le glorieux vainqueur au combat, le soutien de la prospérité, le glorieux au carquois formidable.

    Commentary

    According to Willis 2004: page 223, these birudas are descriptive labels.

    Bibliography

    First recorded in ARIE 1990-1991; re-edited here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020), from autopsy and photos (20**).

    Primary

    ARIE 1990-1991. Pages 6, 87, appendix B/1990–1991, № 159–162. [siglum ARIE 1990-1991]

    Secondary

    Lockwood, Michael. 1993. Māmallapuram: A Guide to the Monuments. Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, Madras Christian College.
    Page 108.
    Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney & Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava Art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates.
    Page 223.
    Willis, Michael. 2004. “The Archaeology and Politics of Time.” The Vākāṭaka heritage: Indian culture at the crossroads, edited by Hans T. Bakker, 33–58. Gonda Indological Studies 13. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.
    Page 223.
    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 280, № IR 41.