Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00069

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

Alternative identifier:

Origin: Written in 700-800.

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000062 inscription on On a stone lying behind the western gopura of the Bhairavēśvara temple at Mōpūr

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

Edition

1svasti śrī
2miḷḷirājula
3(I)cina nēla
4nūṟu maṟutu[?1*]
5(kṣa)triyya kuḍanā(ṭi)
6(mrō)pōra sivasi[?1*]pra[?2*]
7nilpinavāru śrī[?2*]-
8taṁbu nilpinavāru [?2*]
9dapinavāru dvi[?3*]
10[1 line lost or illegible]

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The width of the gaps follows the number of dots in the edition. 

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 497 of 1906 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu with few metadata and without picture and translation (1948: page 336, № 615).

Primary

Secondary

A. R. No. 497 of 1906
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 336, № 615.
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 335, № 72.