Hero stone of the reign of Vaidumbamahārāju

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00082

Hand Description:

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Origin: Written in 835-880.

Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000075 inscription on On two pieces of a broken slab lying in a field to the north of Rāmanāyanikōṭa

Layout: 11 lines are observed/preserved on the artifact.

Edition

1[?2*](sty a)nēkasamara[?3*]-
2kṣmīsamāliṁgitava[?3*]
3[?2*]duṁbamahārāju prithi[?2*]
4[?2*]koḍuku valleya[?1*]tri[...]
5[?2*]ko[?1*]karaṇambu(ṇa dōsi)
6[1 line lost or illegible]-
7(na) pōḍi[?4*]
8[?2*]ku[?3*]
9yē(ṁge)
10ku[?3*]
11(ṭṭi) vrāse[?1*]

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 341, № 633 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. 327 of 1922 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 341, № 634 with few metadata and without translation.

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Secondary

A. R. No. 327 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 341, № 634.