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Current Version:  draft, 2025-01-09Z

Editor:   K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00073

Hand Description:

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Origin: Written in 624-755.

Classification: donative

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000066 inscription on On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the Kapōtēśvara temple at Chejerla

Layout: 9 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1[1 line lost or illegible]
2[?6*](na)la[?5*]
3[?6*]yu(mā)ki pōṭiyu A(ya)[?1*]
4[?5*](dē)vanayu dēvanakūntuliruvu(ru)[?1*]
5dugganāyu bādipōṭiyu lōkamma Anyatha
6[?1*]lōkammayanna mḻēkavaruvuḍu Okkomōdolu
7[?2*]rana candruṇḍanvāṇḍu Ācāriyu IdaM
8viṣamasiddhi dattaM dīniki vakkraṁbu vaccuvāriki
9bhāranāśi ḻaccina(ca)ṇḍu gaṭṭuN

Apparatus

9 ḻaccina(ca)ṇḍu • K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer states in a footnote that it has to be read °vaṇḍu.

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer states that below that inscription there is another one in slightly later charactersSubrahmanya Aiyer 1928, page 213, note 2.

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 154 of 1899 and first published by K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyer with few information and without picture and translation (1928: pages 212–213, № 593).

Primary

Secondary

A. R. No. 154 of 1899
Subrahmanya Aiyer, K. V. 1928. South-Indian Inscriptions (Texts). Volume VI: Miscellaneous Inscriptions from the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada Countries. South Indian Inscriptions 6. Calcutta: Governement of India, Central Publication Branch.
Pages 212–213, № 593.
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.
Pages 344–345, № 96.