Hero stone at Basinikoṇḍa

Metadata

Current Version:  draft, 2024-05-22Z

Editor:   J. Ramayya Pantulu.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00085

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Origin:

Classification: commemorative-memorial-hero memorial

Languages: Telugu

  1. Predominantly in Telugu, script and

Corresponding Artefact: ARTTelugu000078 inscription on On a broken slab lying in a field at Basinikoṇḍa near Madanapalle

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

Edition

1(sva)sti śrī ḻōṅkuḷa[?3*]
2[?1*]ḷki kumbandukala celvu[?3*]
3[?1*](ppa)na (ve)ggeḍaḷ ādityana
4 prabhugaḷa gōṣṭi (bi)rakayi(lō)
5[?2*]vikramarāmanamaḻuvakkadhū-
6(r)ttaN A[?1*]nabaladakaya ḻō-
7ṅkuḷaprākara[?1*]mavumuḍuvuka-
8yyaṁbuḷōna Ēnugu taṇki
9poḍici paḍiye(N)

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

The text follows the edition of J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 623 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). Sastri gives a summary of the content:

The inscription refers to the ḻōṅkuḷa family, and a discussion (goṣṭhi) between the minister Āditya, and the king. States that a certain person attacked an elephant in the battle of Mavumaḍuvu (i.e. Mudumaḍuvu), and having fought with it fell. (Sastri 1969, page 337, № 77)

Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 294 of 1905 and first published by J. Ramayya Pantulu in 1948: page 338, № 623 with few metadata and without translation. K. M. Sastry 1969: page 337 provides a short summary while relying on J. Ramayya Pantulu’s edition.

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Secondary

A. R. No. 294 of 1905
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, № 623.
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 337, № 77.