Current Version: draft, 2024-05-22Z
Editor: N. Lakshminarayan Rao.
DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00075
Hand Description:
Alternative identifier:
Origin: Written in 752-805.
Classification: donative
Languages: Telugu
Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000068 inscription on On a stone lying in a field in Selapādu, hamlet of Śēkūru
Layout: 14 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.
1svasti śrī(ma)sarvvalōku(A)sraya
2sraya śrī viṣṇuvarddhana-ma-
3hārājulaku pravarttamāna-vijayarājya-saṁ-
4vachsarambuḶ muppadimūnṟ-aku(n ē)ṇḍu
5śrī veḷaḷūru raṭṭagoḍlu mayindaṟa(ga) rāmu(ṇḍa)luganu
6kaṇaṁbuna vāru (Acca) muṟutalēṟa Unṟi
7Icciri svasti śrī jūvipōṟiki Irugaṇḍaku Āṟla
8paṭṭu (nēla) Icciri tīniki vakraṁbu va(cci)navāriki
9pāranāsiki vēvuru pāṟanu kavilaḷanu caṁpina-
10[1 line lost or illegible]
11tīniki vakraṁbu vaccinavāri[]
12tīniki vaṁjanaṁbu [?3*]lu muḻaki[?5*]
13[?5*]yūra āḍla paṭṭu poloṁbu[?7*]duggara
14vrasinavāru
1 svasti śrī(ma)sarvvalōku(A)sraya ◇ svasti śrī[?5*] / [?2*]sarvvalōkā[?4*]
2 sraya • Lakshminarayan Rao states in a note that these two letters are reduntant. — 2–3 ma/hārājulaku ◇ ma[?4*]/hārājula
4 °vachsarambuḶ muppadimūnṟ-aku(n ē)ṇḍu ◇ °vatsaraṁbu[?5*]ṇḍu
5–6 śrī veḷaḷūru raṭṭagoḍlu mayindaṟa(ga) rāmu(ṇḍa)luganu / kaṇaṁbuna vāru (Acca) muṟutalēṟa
Unṟi ◇ śrī veḷaḷūru raṭṭago[?5*] / (kaṁ)nōbuna vāru[?4*]
7 śrī jūvipōṟiki Irugaṇḍaku Āṟla ◇ śrī[?2*]Igaruṇḍu[?2*]
9 pāranāsiki vēvuru pāṟanu kavilaḷanu caṁpina° ◇ paranāsiki vēvuru[?1*]po[?2*]nukaviḷalanu caṁpina[?2*]nu
11 tīniki vakraṁbu vaccinavāri[] ◇ tīniki vakraṁbu vaccinavāriki
12 tīniki vaṁjanaṁbu [?3*]lu muḻaki[?5*] ◇ tīniki[?6*]ḷuvanātaniki
13 [?5*]yūra āḍla paṭṭu poloṁbu[?7*]duggara ◇ [?2*]śahapaḷuṟnāru[?3*]
14 vrasinavāru ◇ vrasinavaru[?2*]
The width of the missing parts follows the number of dots in the editions (one akṣara per dot); this, however, is but a very approximate value. Interestingly, the line numbering differs between the two editors, the first line being split into two by J. Ramayya Pantulu who omits line 10 according to N. Lakshminarayan Rao.
The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 169 of 1917 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu with few metadata and without translation and picture (1948: page 112, № 217). The reading was improved by N. Lakshminarayan Rao (1948: page xliv).