Kāñcīpuram, Maṅgalatīrtha steps

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00387

Summary: The first half of a verse also found twice in Mahābalipuram (tfaPallava***, ***).

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The delineation in Lockwood et al. 2001: page 288 shows a well executed and almost ornate Grantha.

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    Text after Lockwood et al. 2001: page 288

    Anuṣṭubh
    sambhava-sthiti-saṁhāra-
    -kāraṇam vīta-kāraṇaḥ

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    The cause of ...

    Translation into French by Sylvain Brocquet

    Lui qui est cause des naissances, des existences et de leur destruction, mais n’a lui-même nulle cause.

    Bibliography

    Reported in the Indian Express (Madras edition) 28.07.1988; edited in Lockwood et al. 2001: page 288; encoded here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2020).

    Primary

    Lockwood, Michael, Vishnu Bhat A, Gift Siromoney & Dayanandan P. 2001. Pallava Art. Madras, Tambaram: Tambaram Research Associates.
    Page 288. [siglum ML+al]

    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.