Inscription near Kurubalakōṭa mentioning Gaṇḍaseṅkali and the Cōḻa

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00079

Hand Description:


Additional Metadata

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Origin: Written in 849-892.

Classification: unknown text type

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000072 inscription on On a broken slab lying in a field to the south of Kurubalakōṭa

Layout: 5 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1svasti śrī gaṇḍa(se)ṅkali-
2nṟu sōḻapariyya-
3na pallalō sembaḻi-
4na sōḻūḷa ca-
5[?3*]macu

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 625 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. 300 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 625 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastri reprints J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition and gives a summary: Mentions a certain Gaṇḍaseṅkali.Sastri 1969, page 338, № 79

Primary

Secondary

A. R. No. 300 of 1922
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 338, № 625.
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 338, № 79.