Hero stone for some unknown warrior

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00074

Hand Description:

Additional Metadata

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Origin: Written in 700-800.

Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000067 inscription on On a slab found near the ruined ´Siva temple in the Yēnugarātimadi field at Peddatippasamudram near Madanapalle

Layout: 7 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1svasti śrī mai[?3*]-
2rājula koḍuku[?2*]
3maganṟu mada(ṁ)buri[?3*]
4madavunṟu[?3*]
5mahārājula ya[?3*]
6poḍici paḍi(ye)[?3*]
7kaḷli[?3*]

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 343, № 641 in absence of a picture. 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. 535 of 1906 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 343, № 641 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri, while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition, gives a short summary: States that some one fell in a battle.Sastri 1969, page 343

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Secondary

A. R. No. 535 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 343, № 641.
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 343, № 92.