Bhīmeśvara temple donation of an eternal lamp(?)

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   H. Krishna Sastri.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00014

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Origin:

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu

1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000013 inscription on Buried stone near the same temple [i. e. Bhīmēśvara temple at Bhīmavaram]

Layout: 12 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

¹svasti rudra[?4*](ṇḍārkka)-
²di[?5*]śrī-
³[?1*](mō)ju bhīmavrō-
⁴li[?7*]
⁵hō[...kaliviṣṇu]rāju vi(ḍci)-
⁶(na) sthitiḍāgunuṁḍugadu(jē)-
⁷(ṭi)yu (ve)ṭṭiyuṁ gona-
⁸kuṇḍa sariyiñcē dī-
⁹(ni)n deppi cēsinavāṇḍu
¹⁰pañcamahāpātakaṁbu
¹¹(sē)sinavāṇḍu bāranā-
¹²si (vaccina)vāṇḍu

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of H. Krishna Sastri in 1925: page 21, № 58 in absence of a picture. Following the entry in A. R. No. 471 of 1893 Krishna Sastri edited the text which was written on two faces on a stone slab as one entry with continuous line numbering although the two faces evidently display two distinct inscriptions. They are given here as 58a and 58b respectively. The line numbering was adapted to this situation wherefore line 5 in 1925: page 21, № 58 corresponds to line 1 in this edition.  Krishna Sastri suggests the tentative reading kaliviṣṇu in line 5.

Bibliography

The text was edited together with a second inscription on the same stone by H. Krishna Sastri in 1925: page 21, № 58 without a picture. The text was re-edited by K. M. Sastri (1969: page 345, № 97) on basis of SII with some errors and without translation.

Secondary

A. R. No. 471 of 1893