Gandhibedha Sūrya image inscription of the time of Karṇa

Metadata

Current Version: draft, 2025-03-21Z

Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

DHARMA Identifier: INSSomavamsin00034

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Technique: engraved.

Layout: 2-10 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

¹[...]dhirāja-parameśvara-soma-kula-tilaka-tri[...]
²[...]śrī-karṇṇa^👤-rājadevasya pravarddhamāna-vi[...]

Apparatus

^line ◇ Sh

Translation by Amandine Wattelier-Bricout

Commentary

Floowing Sircar 1959–1960: pages 273–274, Shastri 1995: page 335 suggests the following reconstruction: ‘[siddham parama-bhaṭṭāraka-mahārājā]dhirāja-parameśvara-soma-kula-tilaka-tri[kaliṅgādhipati-parama-māheśvara]-śrī-karṇṇa-rāja-devasya pravarddhamāna-vi[jaya-rājye samvatsare]’

Bibliography

Primary

Sircar, Dines Chandra. 1959–1960. “Note on Ratnagiri Plates of Somavamsi Karna (1 Plate).” Epigraphia Indica 33: 269–74.

[siglum Si]

Rajaguru, Satyanarayan. 1966. Inscriptions of Orissa, Vol. 4. Sri Sarada Press. [https://archive.org/details/inscriptions-of-orissa-v04-1966].

№ 41, pages 265–267. [siglum R]

Shastri, Ajay Mitra. 1995. Inscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvaṁśins and Somavaṁśins, Part II: Inscriptions. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Motilal Bandarsidass.

Appendix III, pages 334–335. [siglum Sh]

Secondary

Tripathy, Snigdha. 2010. Descriptive Topographical Catalogue of Orissan Inscriptions. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.

Pages 73–74.