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Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

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DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00044

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Additional Metadata

Alternative identifier: Kotturu Inscription of Chalukya Vijayaditya; Year 4

Origin: Written in 700.

Classification: donative-religious land grant

Languages: Telugu and Sanskrit

1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and
2. Secondary language is Sanskrit, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000040 inscription on On a broken stone lying in a field near the Āñjanēya temple at Kottūru, hamlet of Brāhmaṇapalle

Layout: 8 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

¹svasti śrī-vijayāditya-satyāśraya-śrī-¿pr̥i?thuvīvallabha-mahārājādhirāja-paramēśvara-
²-bhaṭāraḷa-vijaya-rājya-saṁvatsaraṁbu nālugu varttamānaṁbugā(nu) vāṇarājuL vaṅganūr-vviṣaya(ṁ)bu Ēḷa(N)
³cappile(nṟu)-rājula samakṣaṁbuna pūllamukki bōḷakaṇamayāru peṇukapaṟuti-pule(ṁ)buna rā(ca)[?4*]
⁴E(mbha)di ma[?4*] pannāsa rājaśrāvitaṁ kāviñci icciri bhāradvāja-sagōtra(ṁ)buna Uñca[?6*]
⁵kumāraśa(rmmā)riki Udakapūrvvaṅkēsi Icciri bhōga-vr̥ddhi-kā(mani) Enṟagoṭṭu-konṟūri mu[?6*]
⁶koṟunā(ṟlu) Inu(vū)ri (sā)kṣigānu iccinadi dēniki vakra(ṁ)bu vaccuvāru pañca-mahāpāta[?6*]
⁷ka(ngāḍe) peḍuṅku pū[?3*]di

(sva)dattā(m pa)rada¡ttām vā!⟨ttāṁ vā⟩ yō harē¡ti!⟨ta⟩ vasu(ṁdharāṁ ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣasaha)[?10*]
⁸(jā)yatē krimiḥ

vipra (si)[?2*]tu[?2*]ka(ñca)gārlu koṭṭiri

Apparatus

^line ◇

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The dots used in the edition to indicate lost or unintelligible characters can not clearly be attributed to a certain quantity of characters (one dot may indicate one or more lost or unintelligible characters).

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 14 of 1947-1948 and first published by P. B. Desai with a commentary and picture but without translation (1949-1950: pages 69–71, № 14).

Secondary

A. R. No. 14 of 1947-1948