Kāñcipuram, Mukteśvara, no king, no year

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-09Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTamilNadu00202

Summary: Fragment. 6 lines of an inscription, the beginning of which is lost.

Hand Description:

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Edition

1 Zone 1 [...] Zone 2 [?8+]
2 Zone 1 [...] Zone 2 [?8+]
3 Zone 1 [...] Zone 2 [ko]ḷvōm ākavu
4 Zone 1 [m ...] Zone 2 [?8×]
5 Zone 1 [...] Zone 2 [1+](m) It-taṇṭam
6 Zone 1 [...] sa Zone 2 (bh)[ai]yār coll(i)

Translation by Emmanuel Francis

1 ... we should obtain ... this fine ... the members of the assembly having said ...

Commentary

It is in fact not clear if these 6 short lines, on the base of the western facade of the vimāna, should be read in continuity one with another or, if assumed in the present edition, they are each one the end of a line, now lost, on the base of the northern facade of the vimāna.

Bibliography

Not reported in ARIE 1892-1893 (ARIE 1892-1893) nor edited in Krishna Sastri 1923 (SII 4).

Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis, based on photos (Emmanuel Francis 2003; Nicolas Cane, 2015).

Primary

Krishna Sastri, H. 1923. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume IV: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Countries and Ceylon. South Indian Inscriptions 4. Madras: Government Press.
Pages 286–287, № 828. [siglum SII]

Secondary

ARIE 1892-1893. Page 13, appendix B/1893, № 15.