Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   .

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00056

Additional Metadata

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Origin: Written in 675-700.

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000049 inscription on On a broken pillar lying in a field in the east of Cilamakūru

Layout: 4 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1(svasti śrī) dānasiṟla mārama (dhā)nimaṅgiyāri pa(ḷli)
2ceṟuvu
3cōḻamahādēvuḷa yiccina stānaṁbun i(cci)ri
4[?3*]vuvānṟu pañcamahāpātakunṟu

Apparatus

line ◇

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The editor states that the inscription is [u]nintelligible1948, page 332: but does not make clear how big the missing parts might be (confer line 2). The number of missing characters follows the number of dots in the edition. 

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 396 of 1904 and first edited by J. Ramayya Pantulu without translation and picture (1948: page 332, № 603). K. M. Sastri re-edited this edition and provided a summary of the content: Refers to the endowment of a tank. A Cōḻamahādēvi is mentionedSastri 1969, page 333.

Secondary

A. R. No. 396 of 1904
Ramayya Pantulu, J. 1948. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume X: Telugu Inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications.
Page 332, № 603.
Sastri, Korada Mahadeva. 1969. Historical Grammar of Telugu with Special Reference to Old Telugu c. 200 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Anantapur: Sri Vekateswara Univ.
Page 333, № 68.